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Virginia Hammerle

Virginia Hammerle is a contributing columnist to The Dallas Morning News and writes weekly articles and blogs on legal issues confronting seniors and their families.
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Estate Planning & Probate

The Job You May Not Want: Agent Opening – Apply Within

Here’s the secret to being a successful agent under an estate planning document: treat it like a second job. You might as well, because...
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Estate Planning & Probate

When Ademption Happens: The Effect of Post-Will Actions

The word “ademption” should strike fear into your heart. It can strip away your entire inheritance. That is exactly what happened to Eloise’s friends.   Eloise signed...
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Estate Planning & Probate

A Mom by Law, A Parent by Right

Mother’s Day, a national holiday created in 1914 by President Woodrow Wilson when he apparently had nothing better to do, formally recognized that a...
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Estate Planning & Probate

Lost Trust Leads to Litigation

Your father, Bob Smith, passes away, and while you are going through his papers you come across a deed transferring property to “Bob Smith,...
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Elder Law

The ABC’s and D’s of Medicare

Medicare is a simple concept with a complicated reality. Woe be to those seniors and their agents who don’t understand at least the Medicare...
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Estate Planning & Probate

Half a Century Later: Patterns Emerge in Predatory Marriages

When 58-year-old Pearl Choate interviewed with elderly millionaires Otis and Estelle Birch at their 32-room California mansion for a private nursing job in the...
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Estate Planning & Probate

Reversing Course: Entitled Children Can Impoverish Elder Parents

Parents: beware the entitled child. He or she can lead you down the path of ruin.   Estate planning is about more than simply signing a...
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Family Law

Addressing the Afterborn Child: Pretermitted Child Laws Prevail

There’s nothing like a pretermitted child to disrupt an otherwise perfectly good estate plan. In Texas, a “pretermitted child” is one that is born to...
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Estate Planning & Probate

Moving to Texas? Property Issues for the Relocating Couple

Couples who have relocated to Texas, particularly if they come from a common-law state, have some serious legal issues they need to recognize.  It has...
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Legal Talk

Precatory Language: Indecisive Words Sink Bequests

Your wish is not a will.  If you use the phrase “I wish” in a will or a trust, there is a strong likelihood that...
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Real Estate

It’s Not a Lock – Deed Monitoring Service has Limited Value

Fraudulent deeds have bedeviled landowners for centuries. It is a problem that is not going away anytime soon.  The beginning of property rights in the...
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Legal Talk

Permitless Carry – Handguns In Texas

On June 17, 2021, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill affirming what every Texan, deep-down, has always believed: law-abiding citizens over 21...
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