How Property Distributed When Someone Dies Without A Will
If you are a parent of an adopted child in Texas and you die without a will, your adopted child will be entitled to the same inheritance…
Planning for Special Circumstances
I read a book recently called The Middle Place. It’s a beautiful and touching memoir written by Kelly Corrigan, a young mother with…
I always get anxious when I travel away from my kids, and my anxiety is heightened when my husband and I travel together. So when we traveled…
Wacky Wills
NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts here.
FAQs About Wills
Although there are no hard and fast rules about how often you should update your will, certain life changes, such as a divorce, will trigger a need…
Texas is a community state. There is a presumption that all property acquired during the marriage belongs to the spouses in equal shares, unless it was acquired…
NB: This post is part of a series highlighting wills that contain some interesting, and sometimes bizarre, bequests and stipulations. You can see all these posts…
FAQs About Estate Planning
So you’ve gotten your estate planning done. Great! But now what? Where do you keep these documents so that they can be they can be used to…