This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on November 7, 2016. Yes, you have reasonable recourse: the Executor named in the Will should hire a qualified Probate Attorney to file your mother’s Will for probate and to claim ownership of the house as her sole devisee. The house was her separate property since she purchased it while she was unmarried. Via the probated Will you as devisee would receive 100% title in the property. If you probate the Will, your fath
