You need to look the deed to your house: if it states that you are joint owners with rights of survivorship, then you do not need to do anything. The house automatically became yours when your husband died. When you sell it, you will need to provide the buyer with his death certificate to prove that you are the sole owner, but nothing needs to be done until then as far as the deed goes. If you are tenants in common or the interests in the property are divided between you in some way, then there needs to be a personal representative of his estate appointed through the probate process who can transfer his interests. These interests would be transferred pursuant to his Will or, if he did not leave a Will, to the law of intestacy for Texas.
Answered on Mar 07th, 2017 at 9:08 AM