if the assistance you provide strains your own finances so you don’t have funds to provide for yourself, then you must cease. Further, if your friends and their families have been pressuring you into these gifts, they may be illegally exploiting your generosity. Gifts must come from your desire to help, not from their requests for assistance.
Under Texas law, this does not qualify as a holographic (handwritten) will because it is not his handwriting. Also, under Texas law, a non-holographic will must have two witnesses. It has at least on
International estate planning has a long, complex history. For instance, in 1973 the United Nations adopted the “Convention Providing a Uniform Law on the Form of an International Will”
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on February 18, 2019. Dear Mr. Premack: My grandmother while in ICU stated that she wanted all she owned including her house to go to me and my bother in law. This was caught on cell phone video. She was later…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on December 3, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: I am drafting a will and testament for myself and have a few questions? 1) Do I need to select a residuary estate for my will if I already have beneficiary’s? 2) For the…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News and other Hearst Newspapers on November 19, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: I was interested in your earlier article about children inheriting property. In my Will I have stated that my house be sold only and that my children equally divide their share of proceeds. I…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on March 5, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: I have a question about my mother’s holographic will. My father died 22 years ago. Afterward, my mother bought a house. Two years later she started living with a man; they never married. My mother was in the…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on January 19, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: A few years ago, a good friend asked me to keep the original of her Will in my lockbox. Her kids do not get along with each other. She said that if she kept the Will at home,…
