Category: Estate Planning

If you are considering nominating someone to act as a trustee for your living trust or someone has asked you to be the trustee of their trust, you need to understand the duties and responsibilities of a trustee. When you serve as a trustee, you need to know what you are supposed...

Many people love their pets more than most people they know, and they worry about what will happen to their pets after the pet owner dies. Texas has a solution for you. Pets Trusts provide for your furry friends after you’re gone. A Texas estate planning attorney can craft a pet...

Same-sex couples have gone through multiple legal hurdles to get recognized as different-sex couples do. Same-sex marriage is now legal under federal law, but these couples still have to think about some unique issues that different-sex couples take for granted. It would be a mistake to assume that the federal law that...

Texas and federal law provide far more protections to married couples than to unmarried couples. This situation is strikingly problematic in the area of estate planning. A Texas estate planning attorney can talk to you about these issues and help you craft documents tailored specifically to your situation and goals.

You can do a lot of things with living trusts that you cannot do with a standard will or with many other types of documents. People use different types of trusts to avoid probate, reduce the expenses of estate administration, protect beneficiaries from themselves, qualify for help from Medicaid to pay for...

When you create a financial power of attorney, you try to anticipate all the situations that might happen at any point down the road. A standard power of attorney usually contains some general powers, or the document would be pointless. 

This article will discuss some of the powerful provisions...

When a person thinks about estate planning, they probably think of drafting a will, a trust, or other documents such as a power of attorney. But today, we also need to consider what happens to our digital property and assets when we pass. This is what is known as digital estate planning....

The choice of who will be trustee of your living trust after you is one of the most important decisions you can make in your estate planning. There are several factors you will want to consider when selecting your successor trustee. 

A Texas estate planning attorney can create...

When you create a living trust document as part of your estate planning, you will need to select someone to serve as the trustee of your trust. Usually, the person who creates the trust is the trustee during their lifetime. The successor trustee steps in to administer the trust after the original...

Anyone could become temporarily incapacitated due to a sudden motor vehicle accident, illness, or injury. Some people are able to recover and regain the ability to manage their finances and make and express their own decisions about medical care and other issues. Some people become incapacitated for many years.