Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I are in our 60's. We have been married for a few years, but it is not our first marriage. We are a blended family. I think we need to do our estate planning. My husband does not want to think about doing the estate planning. He did it with his first wife and doesn't think we need to do it now. Maybe he thinks it is bad luck, or was a waste of money since it was all revoked when they divorced? I don't know. We own some property together and so

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on December 28, 2018. Land ownership can be complex, with issues of maintenance, taxes, sharing the use and enjoyment, and ultimately determining who will receive the land when you die. For some, that is a simple decision. But for those who have heirloom land and a desire to pass it on to more than one future generation, the choices can be more complex. If you simply devise the land to your

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on January 21, 2019. Dear Mr. Premack: I live in San Antonio. My mom is self-pay at a nursing home outside of Houston. I am agent for my mom under her Durable Power of Attorney — but the nursing home insisted they keep my mom’s legal documents. I need to do some business for her, as her agent, and I did not keep a copy of the documents for myself during the pressure of leaving mom under the

This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on January 14, 2019. Dear Mr. Premack: Since 2013 I have been the agent for my uncle, who lives in Texas, under both his Financial and Medical Powers of Attorneys. I live in Mississippi. My uncle had to move to an assisted living place in 2018 and a friend of his just emailed me that after moving into the assisted living place, someone there put a form under his nose and had my uncle sign t