This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News and its MySA.com website on May 29, 2015. Your decision to change the identity of the person you have nominated as your Executor and Agent is sound. The best and highest qualifications for your Executor and Agent are honesty and trustworthiness. Clearly the recent disagreement lowered your opinion of those traits in him. You want your interests and wishes to be honored. Your current legal documents no longer reflect y

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News and its MySA.com website on May 12, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My father is doing fairly well, but my mother is slipping more deeply into memory loss and dementia. They do not have a huge estate but are financially stable. A few years ago my brother helped them go online to make Wills and Powers of Attorney with LegalZoom. Now, I am bothered that mother’s Power of Attorney lists only my father as Agent (and his list only

Be certain she has a legally valid Durable Power of Attorney appointing a trusted agent to make her financial decisions.