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Is Our Home Community Property or Separate Property, and Why Does It Matter?
November 1st, 2021
When two people get married, the property they obtain during their marriage is called marital property. This includes anything from real property like homes and rental properties, to stock options, investment accounts, heirlooms, and employment incom…
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Categories: Estate Planning
Tags: Community property
How Life Insurance Can Be Part of Your Estate Plan
October 25th, 2021
Life insurance may not seem to have a bearing on how to dispose of assets in your estate, but you might like what you find if you look a bit deeper. Life insurance can be an integral, indispensably important part of a well-thought-out estate plan.
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Categories: Estate Planning
State Laws Change to Protect Nursing Home Residents During Covid-19
October 18th, 2021
Nursing home residents in the US suffered severe consequences of high infection rates, morbidity, and mortality because of COVID-19.
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Categories: Senior Issues
Probate: How an Estate is Administered in Court
October 11th, 2021
To process a decedent’s will it must go through a function called Probate, a method which judicial officials, including probate judges, process property. State laws may vary but the general process stays genuinely the same across the country.
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A Primer on Special Needs Planning
October 4th, 2021
In honor of October as Special Needs Awareness Month, let’s take a look at planning for disabled people to live their best lives. Family money can be carefully managed to fit the disability-benefit rules and provide perks for the disabled person.
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Categories: Special Needs Law
Understanding Probate
September 27th, 2021
Probate is, at the basic level, the process of the court overseeing what happens with a person’s assets or belongings after a person dies. Officially, someone gathers the person’s assets and distributes them to the beneficiaries or heirs. That pe…
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Categories: Probate
Guardianships: Valuable Lessons from the Britney Spears Conservatorship
September 20th, 2021
Most everyone at some point over the past several months has heard something about Britney Spears’s conservatorship and her battles with her father, who has been serving as her conservator. Conservators, commonly called guardians in Texas and F…
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Categories: Guardianship
Medicaid Estate Recovery, Your Home, and 8 Trillion Dollars
September 13th, 2021
The need for affordable long-term support services in America has increased dramatically. Costs are exorbitantly expensive whether you struggle to pay premiums for a long-term care insurance policy or monthly bills from a nursing home. The US Departm…
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Tags: Medicaid
Understanding the Power of Attorney
September 6th, 2021
In its various forms, a power of attorney is an essential tool when planning for possible incapacity or if you otherwise need a trusted agent to manage your affairs. This legal document can grant broad authority to one or more agent to transact busin…
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Categories: Powers of Attorney
Tags: Power of Attorney
Why a Letter of Intent is Crucial
August 30th, 2021
A letter of intent (LOI) can be a valuable piece in your estate planning, and although it is an informal letter, it can more fully represent your financial and personal intentions after you die. Everyone knows they need to make a will, but this lesse…
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Categories: Estate Planning
Attorney Jana McCreary
Houston Estate Planning Attorney Jana R. McCreary has been an attorney for over twenty years, a career move she made after working for over a decade with adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Graduating summa cum laud… Read More