This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on March 23, 2018. Your mother fell victim to incomplete knowledge of the law and to bad advice from someone whose words did not mean what she thought they meant. The situation is that the Bexar Appraisal office, along with all of the county appraisal offices around Texas, are legally charged with setting the value of various properties so that the taxing entities (like the County, the City, and the School District) c

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News and its MySA.com site on March 17, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My husband passed away in mid-2014, leaving me as his sole heir. I sold a farm that was partly his inheritance and partly acreage we bought together. The sale closed six months and five days after his death. My accountant says I must have an appraisal to satisfy IRS as to gain or loss on the property all because of those five days, that an appraisal would not