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• Everyone is grateful to you, especially the children whose lives are being saved!Jessica - Friends of St. Jude
• Not only did you successfully facilitate my divorce with almost no drama, you have been such a good friend during the process.Jill - Dallas, TX
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• They made the probate process very easy for me and my family.Donna - Dallas, TX

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Probate

• Without the PROPER PLAN, a Probate Judge makes ALL the decisions!

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Probate

• The Probate Process in Texas: Dependent vs. Independent Estate Administration

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My Relative Just Passed Away, What Is My First Step?

When someone passes away, the first thing you need to do is at least contact a funeral home. My advice to clients when I meet with them is to make sure that they have all those arrangements made, or to make sure that they've talked to their children or their spouse, husband or wife, so that they know what funeral home, where they want to be buried, if they want to be cremated, do they want a coffin, exactly what's going on. But the first thing you want to do is contact a funeral home to start making those arrangements. It's a very difficult time, you're very vulnerable at that time, but it's the funeral home that's going to kind of direct you and guide you where you need to be. A lot of times people will call me shortly after someone has died and say, my mother or father has died, I have this will, I need to go through probate now. What I explain to them is that's not needed right now. Right now you have to work on taking care of your family, taking care of mom and dad, making sure that the arrangements are met, and once you've had time to digest everything, take a look around the house. If you find a will, let us know. A lot of times, affairs aren't exactly in order as they should be, so it may take a few weeks, it may take a few months. We have full years to probate a will in Texas and sometimes it may take that long.

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Probate

• My husband has passed away and left a will to divide his assets between my children and myself. Can I just go ahead and do so or do we need to probate the will in court?

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