Texas Probate Q&A
from Paul Premack, Probate and Estate Planning

When you own land in multiple states, your estate may have to go to probate in all of those states. A Living Trust can be the solution...

If a person has been convicted of a felony, either in state court or federal court, that person is not qualified to serve as an Executor...

After the Will is admitted to probate as Muniment of Title, a certified copy of the Court Order and Will should be obtained and filed.

The time frame of a person's death determines what law we need to apply. Your father died in the 1970's either without a Will or no action w

Texas Estates Code: any pay on death arrangement ends upon divorce, annulment, or voiding of the marriage.

Dear Mr. Premack: My sister and I have a question about a bank account that belonged to our father, who died about two months ago. All of...

One part of Probate is the process of "proving" that a Will is valid. Another part is distributing the assets to the intended heirs.

Does having a Community Property Survivorship Agreement (CPSA) really avoid probate? Does it have to go before a Judge when one of us dies?

The process is called “Appointment of an Administrator with the Will Annexed”. All provisions of the Will relating to distribution ...

If it is not admitted to probate by then, the law presumes that there was no Will at all which means that the resources pass by state law...

The most important factor is where you lived, not the location of your death. Dying away from your home city raises practical considerations

Probate of a Foreign Will involves Texas probate of a Will from another nation or another US state when the decedent had property in Texas.

When a person dies owning real property, several legal pre-planning documents impact establishing the identity of the new owners.

1) Wills are not “self-enacting”, 2) there is a legal time limit during which you must take legal action

Will POD account be upheld against challenge?

Can Executor do Probate without Lawyer?

Home Equity Loan liability after Divorce and Death

Can Wife’s Inheritance pass to Husband?

Aretha Franklin died in 2018 in Michigan, with an estate that Forbes reports as about $80 million. Three papers have been filed in court. Tw

Transfer of house title before or after death