Dear Mr. Premack: With regards to Medicaid, how many acres are allowed in a Homestead? Can there be a country road that runs through the property for the Homestead claim? KF
Texas Medicaid regulations do not restrict the number of acres that can be counted as homestead. If there is a country road that runs through the property, the road is not considered to interrupt the homestead. Law does require that the homestead property be “contiguous” – that is, you cannot claim as homestead 40 acres in Comal County and another 60 acres in Medina County; nor can you claim as homestead 100 acres all in Comal County that are separated by another person’s acreage. But a road or railroad is not the type of item that renders the property non-continguous.
While there is no maximum acreage allotment, there is a maximum value allowed. The homestead cannot exceed $552,000 in value (unless there is a spouse or under-21 child or disabled child of any age living on the property, in which case there is no value limit).