Can One Sibling Block House Sale after Dad’s Death?
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and its MySA.com website on April 7, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My mother died July 1989 without a Will. My father died January 2015 with a Will leaving his assets to his children. We are trying to sell his house, but have been told, because we have one sibling who will not sign paperwork, that we cannot sell. Would the community property not belong to my father? Wouldn’t father’s Will give us the legal rights we now nee