We have been married for 10 years and I pay the mortgage.
answered on Mar 11, 2020
Under Texas law, inception of title doctrine says that the home is your wife's separate property. Your income during marriage, however, is community property. So the community estate might have a claim for economic contribution to your wife's separate estate, but most courts recognise... View More 
Parent died and spouse still living but the house deed was never put in his name.
answered on Oct 3, 2019
The name on Title / deed does not affect the community or separate character of the property. If the property was acquired during marriage there is a rebuttable presumption that the property is community property, regardless of whether the spouse is on the title, and that surviving spouse would... View More
answered on Sep 18, 2019
A property is not owned by a trust. A trust is an agreement, not a person or entity. Property is owned in trust, by the trustee(s) for the benefit of the beneficiaries. Testamentary trusts spring at the death of a testator and are defined in the testator's will. You have not said what role, if... View More
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