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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Texas has a little-known estate planning technique available to spouses – the Community Property Survivorship Agreement.
Here is how it works: both spouses sign a...
A One- Act Play.
Characters: Ailing elderly mom, not-so-wealthy adult son, and son’s wife.
Opening scene: Living room in a nice house located in an unidentified...