Both family law and probate law have one important quality in common - and it's at the heart of why our team of lawyers at the Law Office of have chosen those areas of law. They both help people through life's challenges: Specifically, the...
Probate Law
Can I get by without a will?
It sounds like it goes against popular wisdom, but you could conceivably get by without a will-or just use a will to divide the personal items that might be argued over by various family members! As I mentioned in my last blog article, an estate is divided into...
Probate Assets vs. Non-probate Assets
A big misnomer is that when you die you must go to probate in order to divide the estate, but in fact, the decision on whether or not to probate relies greatly on the type of estate of the decedent. Are all the assets probate assets? Or perhaps the estate is comprised...
Top Five Misconceptions Regarding a Will
I speak with people about estate planning all the time, specifically wills. I've found that many people have very similar misunderstandings regarding a will. I've put together a list of the top five misconceptions I've run across. I invite you to look and see if...
Legal Scenarios in Big Little Lies
HBO recently concluded its mini-series Big Little Lies, and if your office, circle of friends, or family is anything like mine, the buzz created by the final episode was all you could talk about since it aired. Of course, the talk at our office water...
Three Documents More Important Than a Will
When potential clients seek my estate planning services, they often start the conversation by asking about drawing up a will. This is a natural impulse, since it's a document that is used in non-legal conversation, and is seen in movies and on television. A will...
Estate Planning Musts for the Hospital
Estate planning isn't just about the end of your life. Many of us will go to a hospital at some point in our lifetime, whether planned or unplanned. While the matter may not be life-threatening, it could still require some observation, treatment, or even surgery. No...
Guardianship in Texas
For many, when they hear the term guardianship, they think of the legal status pertaining to those who want to function as parents to a child. While that may be the case in some instances, when referring to guardianships in the legal sense, we are referring to the...