This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on October 9, 2017. an issue was raised by reader L.T. She and her husband owned a house. He died intestate in the late 1980s. She wants to leave the house to her new second husband, but because of the intestacy law the first husband’s half of the house is owned by their children who are uncooperative. The remedy discussed last week was to file the Will for Probate as a Muniment of Title, but there were several possib

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on October 2, 2017. On September 27, President Trump announced a nine-page framework to modify the tax code’s 74,000+ pages. Clearly more details must be announced, and should become public when an actual bill is filed in Congress. Currently, the federal estate tax is imposed when an unmarried person dies with more than $5.45 million in assets, or when the second spouse dies with more than $10.9 million in assets. Suc