Dear Mr. Premack: A woman is in her second marriage. She has children from her first marriage, and her husband has children from his first marriage, but there are no children from this second marriage ...

Courtesy / Getty Images/iStockphoto (This is the final article in a series about Texas probate procedures.) There are very few types of documents that are as misunderstood as the Affidavit of Heirship ...

Dear Mr. Premack: My husband and I married 10 years ago after both becoming widowed with grown children. He sold his house and moved into mine (bought with my late husband). I understand if I die ...

Darlene Leavell owned the house she lived in. The mint-green double shotgun had been her mother’s, the proud payoff of a life’s work. When Leavall’s mother died in 2001, leaving the city bus driver ...