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My husband and I have been married for 31 years. He has four grown children from a previous marriage and we have one child together. We have properly
Asked on Jun 05th, 2012 on Wills and Probate - Texas
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drawn wills naming each other as beneficiaries and, if we both go, we have named our son as the exclusive beneficiary. Do his children from his former marriage have any special rights in the State of Texas that would give them access to our funds and take away from what we have chosen to leave exclusively to the son we have together?
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Please take your wills to a lawyer who specializes in estate planning to make certain that your wills do what you believe they do. If so, your bequest to your joint child would be fine so long as you complied with all the legal requirements, were both of sound mind when the will was executed and there was no undue influence exerted but be aware that his children from a prior marriage could always file a will contest to try to get a share of his estate.
Answered on Jun 06th, 2012 at 3:24 PM