In our last column on guardianship, we introduced a discussion of adult guardianship by talking about temporary guardianship. Sometimes, that’s exactly what it sounds like-a person taking care of another person and his or her finances for a period of up to 60...
Guardianship is not something that just applies to children. Indeed, a number of legal guardianship cases in Texas and elsewhere involve unmarried adults (or widows or widowers) who have become incapacitated or otherwise unable to take care of either themselves, their...
When a couple starts the divorce process, each party is supposed to tell the truth about assets they have and debts they’ve accumulated. However, not all divorces work that way. It’s possible, for example, that a husband has an account he doesn’t...
One of the biggest questions that comes up in the divorce cases I work on concerns what belongs to whom. It’s an interesting but often misguided question, as it fails to acknowledge the difference between separate and community property. The simplest way to...