This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News and its MySA.com site on March 17, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My husband passed away in mid-2014, leaving me as his sole heir. I sold a farm that was partly his inheritance and partly acreage we bought together. The sale closed six months and five days after his death. My accountant says I must have an appraisal to satisfy IRS as to gain or loss on the property all because of those five days, that an appraisal would not

This column first appeared in the SA Express-News and its MySA.com website on March 12, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: I recently found out that my natural, biological father was “an old family friend” whom I had not seen in 30 years. He is 86 years old has one living son, a deceased son (both have children) and a stepdaughter whom he raised from age 3. He is widowed. He looked for me for 10 years and his sister helped him. We have built a wonderful relationship and he wants to leav

This column first appeared in the SA Express-News and its MySA.com website on March 3, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: A few years ago you wrote about legal control of digital assets, like emails and online stored photos when a person dies. I didn’t think too much about it until I started to use my phone to take lots of photos, and they auto-upload to the cloud. I put lots of photos on Facebook, and was wondering what happens to the Facebook records, posts, photos and videos should I