by Keith Hajovsky | Feb 7, 2024 | Asset Protection, General Estate Planning, Marital Assets, Probate, Wills
What is considered a homestead in Texas can have a very big effect on your estate planning needs as well as many other aspects of your life. The Texas Constitution lets a person establish a homestead which is basically a certain piece of real estate that is exempted...
by Keith Hajovsky | Sep 27, 2023 | Estate Administration, General Estate Planning, Intestate - Dying Without A Will, Marital Assets, Wills
If you die without a will in Texas, the Texas Estates Code has strict rules that dictate where your assets go. For many or perhaps people this strict assignment of their assets is not what they would have wanted. And for some people, due to their specific life...
by Keith Hajovsky | Jan 25, 2023 | Estate Administration, General Estate Planning, Intestate - Dying Without A Will, Marital Assets, Non-probate Assets, Wills
When you are married you have community property and separate property in Texas. Each spouse has full testamentary power (the ability to say who gets which of those assets in their will) over their own separate property, but they have testamentary power only over one...