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Virginia Hammerle

Virginia Hammerle is a contributing columnist to The Dallas Morning News and writes weekly articles and blogs on legal issues confronting seniors and their families.
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Probate

Privacy for the Deceased: Law Provides Limited Protection

Suppose your father, an intensely private person, dies as the result of a bizarre murder-for-hire scheme. The press is everywhere, demanding family public statements, autopsy...
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Wills & Trusts

A Discharge Dilemma: Successful Medicare Appeals are Rare

Here is a bit of information that you might find helpful if you are on Medicare and about to get inappropriately discharged from the...
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Legal Talk

An Informal Marriage: Are You Married?

Are you married? Amazingly, a lot of people cannot correctly answer that question. In Texas, you can be married formally or informally.  The formal way is...
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Wills & Trusts

Electronic Wills in Texas

An Idea Before its Time Sometimes it seems as if you can do anything online – order groceries, close on your home sale, buy a...
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Legal Talk

Funeral planning is helpful. Buying a prepaid funeral contract – not so much.

That is because there is a huge potential for being scammed in the process. In one example, a company called National Prearranged Services, Inc. (NPS)...
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Legal Talk

Living the Life in Texas: Tips for Establishing Domicile

Texas offers its residents several favorable benefits. We do not have an individual income tax, we do not impose an estate or inheritance tax, and...
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Legal Talk

Driving After Death: the Texas Beneficiary Form for Vehicles

There’s a new form in town:  Beneficiary Designation for a Motor Vehicle. If you own a vehicle registered in Texas, then you can name a...
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Estate Planning

A Deed, Indeed – Words Make the Property

Let’s talk deeds, as in Warranty Deeds, Special Warranty Deeds, Deeds of Gift and Lady Bird Deeds. It can be a bit mind-numbing. A deed...
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Legal Talk

‘Til Death Do Us Part – Digital Assets Have a Life Of Their Own

Ever wonder what will happen to your Facebook account when you die? Here is your answer: TRUFADAA. It stands for Texas Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access...
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Legal Talk

Banking On a Final Resting Place – Perpetual Care Cemeteries Must Operate By the Rules

Cue the jokes: in Texas, perpetual care cemeteries are supervised by the Texas Department of Banking. The Department of Banking also supervises prepaid funeral...
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Wills & Trusts

The Missing Trust – What to Do When the Trust Document Disappears

For many, many years  –  from the stone age through 2011, to be exact  –  attorneys in Texas regularly recommended trusts to their clients...
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Probate

The Plight of Burial Plots

Little known laws are the light of a litigator’s life. Example: the law of cemetery plots. The right to be buried in a certain plot is...
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