Dear Mr. Premack: My brother has unexpectedly died of Covid. He was just 61 years old and refused the vaccine. He never married or had children. He worked with lots of people, and that is where we think he got exposed. He was hospitalized for nearly three weeks. His broker called me after he found out about the death to say our mother was listed as beneficiary of a rather large brokerage account. But she died nearly five years ago, so the broker said the account would be paid

The Texas Family Code allows spouses, in a written partition agreement signed by both, to convert community in separate property.