Texas has a little-known estate planning technique available to spouses – the Community Property Survivorship Agreement. Here is how it works: Both spouses sign a written agreement that all or part of ...

Question: We want to sell our house and downsize to a townhouse in central Phoenix. In organizing our paperwork with our listing broker, we learned that our deed said that we owned our home as "joint ...

Question: In a recent column, you discussed the benefit of spouses owning their home (or other real property) as community property with right of survivorship. You said that for a home owned as ...

'She is an old-school farm girl who inherited all her money and wants to pass it down to her children' "We purchased our dream home with a tenants-in-common clause recorded on the deed where we each ...

A family friend has extensive real-estate holdings owned jointly with her husband of 30 years. They are joint tenants with the right of survivorship. Both have children from previous marriages. My ...