This answer first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on March 30, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: I read with interest the article [March 23, 2018] about the lady who thought changing records at the Appraisal office would make her sole owner or her property. I did the same and I was thinking the same…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on March 23, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: What gives? My mom was told by the Bexar Appraisal office when my dad died three years ago that they put the house in her name. She was paying taxes on the invoices that come from them, that…
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 November 14, 2017. Dear Mr. Premack: Our widowed mom was in a nursing home on Medicaid. She died this July. Her Will leaves her house to all her children. Last month MERP sent me a claim letter stating they will file a claim against…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on March 1, 2017. Dear Mr. Premack: I read your article about “Can Second Spouse Remain in Homestead”. Our situation is that my husband’s father owned a house, leaving it to his three children when he died. His second wife (the stepmother) was not listed…
Dear Mr. Premack: With regards to Medicaid, how many acres are allowed in a Homestead? Can there be a country road that runs through the property for the Homestead claim? KF Texas Medicaid regulations do not restrict the number of acres that can be counted as homestead. If there is a country road that runs…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on December 9, 2016. Dear Mr. Premack: My mom owned a house prior to marring her second husband. She was disabled and deferred property taxes on her homestead. She recently passed away. I understand her husband has a life-estate in my mom’s non-community property home,…
