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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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Legal Talk

Predators and Prey – Addressing Elder Exploitation

How is it that the very actions one associates with doing good can just as easily be flipped to do evil? You don’t have to...
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Estate Planning

A New Kind of Kin – Equitable Adoption Comes of Age

Hidden among the many provisions of the Texas Estates Code is a little statutory gem called “Definitions.” There one can find helpful information about...
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Estate Planning

The New Power of a Power of Attorney Change in Texas Law Creates Planning Opportunities

Texas estate planners have long known a dirty little secret: the durable power of attorney has the legal substance of a wisp of smoke....
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Legal Talk

Banking On a Final Resting Place – Perpetual Care Cemeteries Must Operate By the Rules

Cue the jokes: in Texas, perpetual care cemeteries are supervised by the Texas Department of Banking. The Department of Banking also supervises prepaid funeral...
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Wills & Trusts

The Missing Trust – What to Do When the Trust Document Disappears

For many, many years  –  from the stone age through 2011, to be exact  –  attorneys in Texas regularly recommended trusts to their clients...
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Probate

The Plight of Burial Plots

Little known laws are the light of a litigator’s life. Example: the law of cemetery plots. The right to be buried in a certain plot is...
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Probate

X Marks The Spot – Valid Signatures For Wills In Texas

Rubber stamps, marks and initials: are these valid signatures? They are if you are signing a will in Texas. Let’s start with the basics. A...
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Wills & Trusts

Surviving the Common Disaster

120 hours.  That is how long a devisee or heir must out-live a decedent  to lay claim to an inheritance.  Die within that time...
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Wills & Trusts

Decoding A Trust Agreement

Some day you may need to read, and understand, a Trust Agreement. On the pleasure scale, it will fall somewhere between undergoing a root...
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Legal Talk

Perpetual Care Cemetery Explained

Most big cemeteries are classified as a “Perpetual Care Cemetery. ” That means it has a perpetual care trust fund behind it. A Perpetual...
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Probate

The Resurrection Form

For those who continue to doubt the exalted power of the federal government, consider this: the Social Security Administration can resurrect you, and it...
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*Virginia Hammerle, Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

**Virginia Hammerle, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Super Lawyer is a Thomson Reuters service

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