Late Probate of Will Requires Personal Notice to Heirs
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on September 25, 2017. There are a few things that you can say in your Will, but you have a more pressing legal issue you have not even recognized. When your first husband died, he was owner of a one-half community property interest in that house. His Will may have said it would pass to you, but you never probated the Will. Consequently, under Texas law, his estate is treated as though he died intestate (did not have