Digital Assets Great article about what happens to your digital assets when you die, plan ahead for a digital Executor, please read. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-what-happens-to-your-data-after-you-die-101447039569.html
Category: <span>Probate</span>
Blog
Estate Planning with Digital Assets In today’s online and social media age, have you ever considered what would happen to your Facebook, Twitter or other online profiles and accounts if you died or became incapacitated? Who would be able to access your bank accounts? Would your probate Executor or Power of Attorney Agent be granted...
Estate Planning and Advanced Directives
Very few people are fully prepared for the unexpected incapacity or impending loss of a loved one. Advanced preparation can help ease the burden of making difficult decisions for a loved one in times of unexpected tragedy or loss. It’s important that you and your loved ones discuss end of life wishes and desires. At...
What Does A Texas Independent Executor or Administrator Do?
When you are named as an Independent Executor in a Will or otherwise appointed by a Court to serve as an Independent Administrator of an estate in Texas, you become responsible for the task of administering the decedent’s estate. As Independent Executor or Administrator, you will be locating and valuing the decedent’s assets, preparing the...
Is Probate Necessary?
Clients often ask me whether probate is necessary. Generally speaking, probate is necessary when a person dies and has yet to transfer his property during life or at death through a non-probate vehicle such as a trust, a joint ownership asset with right of survivorship, an account payable on death or by way of direct...
The Fate of Huguette Clark’s Fortune
Adam MartinThe Atlantic Wire • May 24, 2011 Click here to read an interesting article about a copper heiress involving probate, estate administration and guardianship issues. If you would like additional information regarding probate, estate administration and guardianship, visit the website of Houston Probate Attorney, Stephanie Mudgett Boates, houstonprobatecounsel.com