Dear Mr. Premack: My mother signed and recorded a warranty deed which gifted her lifetime home to me two years after my dad’s passing (he died about four years ago and they left 14 surviving children). My father died without a will. My mother does not have a will and I doubt she would sign one now. She is 82, almost incapacitated though it has not been medically stated, and has signs of Alzheimer’s. If she has to move to a nursing home, can MERP still take her home to recover

Dear Mr. Premack: My husband owned a home before we got married. After we married and began to live there together, he refinanced the home. During the refinance, I was added to the “Deed of Trust” by the bank, but not the mortgage or the recorded title deed. Does being on the ʺDeed of Trustʺ create community property? If it does not create community property, does my husband have to record a new deed with the county, adding me to the deed as well? We want to set up a Communit

Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I set up a living Trust a few years ago. We both signed a deed to put title to our house into the Trust. My husband died earlier this year, and I’ve been told by the tax appraisal office that my property taxes may now go up drastically. I thought that since I still live in the house and I am well over 65 years old, my taxes would stay the same because of the school tax freeze, the homestead exemption and the over-65 exemption. What am I doing