This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News on May 11, 2018. Dear Mr. Premack: I want to help my family. We have never had anyone divorce in our family. Then my son’s wife divorced my son. She kept their two young children. I get along with the grandchildren just fine. It’s bad because…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on November 20, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I always liked our nephew. We have no children of our own, and have our nephew inheriting in our current Estate Plan. However, he just married a woman neither of us likes. Is it legal…
This column first appeared in the San Antonio Express-News on September 29, 2015. Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I have been married for over 45 years, and he has filed for divorce. We’ve had many disagreements, but oddly the last straw seems to have been over funeral planning. I desire that my remains be…
Dear Mr. Premack: My husband owned a home before we got married. After we married and began to live there together, he refinanced the home. During the refinance, I was added to the “Deed of Trust” by the bank, but not the mortgage or the recorded title deed. Does being on the ʺDeed of Trustʺ…
Dear Mr. Premack: My mother was widowed for many years. During that time, she created a revocable trust to hold her property. A few years later, she got married and eventually changed the trust to give some money to her husband’s children if she were to die. That marriage ended in divorce, but she remained…
Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I have just divorced after an 8-year long second marriage. We each have children from our first marriages. While we were married, we made Wills that left everything to each other. Then our Wills said that if we died together in an accident or something, everything would go half…
Dear Mr. Premack: After nearly forty years, I am recently divorced. Part of the divorce agreement was that my (now) ex-husband has to pay support to me. Does that support have to be included in my income? — VF I would suggest you ask your accountant, but Federal law states that routine support payments received…
