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Dear Mr. Premack: My wife and I are planning on selling our home in the near future. We are afraid that we’ll be exposed to the new...

Dear Mr. Premack: My parents updated their wills and living trust in another state several years before my father died. My mother then...

Dear Mr. Premack: My wife and I were married to each other for 35 years. We did not have any children, and were never married to anyone...

Dear Mr. Premack: My mother named me as agent in her Statutory Durable Power of Attorney in 2003. In 2010 my brother convinced her to...

Dear Mr. Premack: My father got married several years after my mother died. His new wife was still married to another man in Thailand...

Dear Mr. Premack: My widowed father had his resources (home, 166 acre ranch) placed into a revocable living trust. This trust was enacted...

Dear Mr. Premack: I have a mortgage on a house in San Antonio where my mother lives. I’m her only daughter and am not currently living in...

Dear Mr. Premack: In 2003 our mother signed a notarized quitclaim deed of her Texas real property (which was in her name only) to her...

One sure-fire legal cure: you would start a guardianship over your mother and let a judge decide who should take control.

Dear Mr. Premack: I’ve had a friend for 50 years who is now elderly. She has a Durable Power of Attorney (with Trust Powers and Health...

Last week’s column closed with a reference to obtaining legal documents from online websites. I said, “Online sites that offer these...

Dear Mr. Premack: My Will was prepared in Indiana but I am now a Texas resident. Is the will still valid? – RLW Your Indiana Will is...

Dear Mr. Premack: My mother, a healthy widow in her early 70’s, is retiring to a house she recently built. She will sell her current home...

Dear Mr. Premack: My grandfather got married, and then passed away only two months later. His Will left the house to my dad and his...

Dear Mr. Premack: My husband passed away in late 2008. The deed of the house only has his name on it. He had no Will and nothing went...