Texas intestacy
When a decedent has descendants who are not also descendants of the surviving spouse, community-property succession can differ from common assumptions.
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Planning for Blended Families
Texas-focused education for spouses and children across current and prior relationships.
Blended-family planning requires careful coordination of current-spouse rights, descendants from earlier relationships, community and separate property, homestead occupancy, beneficiary designations, and fiduciary roles.
Homestead rights
Ownership, inheritance, and a surviving spouse’s right to occupy a Texas homestead are related but distinct questions.
Nonprobate assets
Retirement plans, insurance, survivorship property, and payable-on-death accounts may not follow the will.
After divorce
Automatic-revocation statutes do not replace a complete review of wills, trusts, powers, insurance, retirement plans, and court orders.
Fiduciary design
Trustee, executor, and agent choices can affect communication, control, and competing interests across family branches.
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