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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

Fighting for Veteran’s Benefits: Three Primary Programs

The world of Veteran’s benefits is bogged down by forms and convoluted rules. That doesn’t mean they have to be completely incomprehensible. After all,...
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Estate Planning

Understanding the Risk of DIY Estate Planning Forms

You can build an airplane all by yourself. Buy a kit or go on-line and download the instructions. A mere 1,400 work hours later,...
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Estate Planning

Discovering the Advance Directive

It is not just you. Some of the written disclosures that hospitals hand out during their patient admission process are downright cryptic. Few people even...
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Litigation

Parties and Perjury: The Truth About Testifying

The 16th century was a busy time. Nicholas Copernicus launched the Scientific Revolution when he published his theory that the earth, long thought to...
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Litigation

Tell It To The Judge: Court Rules Apply to Non-Lawyers, Too

You will likely find yourself in a probate case by sheer happenstance: someone close to you died. The same goes for a guardianship case:...
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Estate Planning

A Fee Simple Absolute – When Courts of Appeal Disagree

When Lillian died, she left a handwritten (holographic) will that stated “If I die all possions (sic) go to my husband Paul…. and when...
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Estate Planning

Trekking the Amazon: A Trip for the Ageless

Our small group of 16 left the landing at Manaus, Brazil in the early morning hours via a small boat that took us up...
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Probate

Best Probate Shortcut: The Family Agreement to Settle

Part 3 of a 3- part series on estate administration shortcuts. View part 2 of the series. A Family Settlement Agreement, or FSA, is a...
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Probate

A Shortcut with Long Odds: The Seldom Successful Small Estate Affidavit

Part 2 of a 3- part series on estate administration shortcuts. View part 1 of the series. Successfully pulling off the Small Estate Affidavit on...
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Probate

Shortcut or Short-Sighted? The Muniment of Title Proceeding

Part 1 of a 3- part series on estate administration shortcuts. “There are no shortcuts in life-only those we imagine.” Frank Leahy I wonder what Frank...
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Estate Planning

Bringing Down the House: Opening the Door on the Transfer on Death Deed

Let’s take a moment and look at a probate avoidance document called the Transfer on Death Deed. Suppose Sally owns a house and wants her...
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Legal Talk

The Step Too Far: When an Attorney’s Actions Cross the Line

Attorney Alex Murdaugh was disbarred by the South Carolina Supreme Court for an alleged insurance fraud scheme and allegations that he had stolen money...
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