Does your wife or husband get part of your inheritance when you divorce?
The short answer is no. The long answer is, it depends. Texas is a community property state. That means that a husband and wife have community property and separate property. Separate property is everything acquired before marriage and everything acquired during marriage by gift or inheritance. Everything else is community property. At the termination of [...]
Joint accounts with right of survivorship
Joint accounts are accounts, usually with a financial institution, where more than one person has rights to the account. Deciding what those rights are is a problem often faced in contested probate cases. The courts look at the documents creating the account and the words used to determine the type of account involved. Often, the [...]
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