Dallas, TX asked in Estate Planning for Texas

Q: Is it possible for a sitting Texas senator to target a person and take their inheritance. This person becomes invisible

Make vague discriptions of mental wellness and judging their intellectual disability. Never heard of intellectual disability

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John Michael Frick
John Michael Frick
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  • Frisco, TX
  • Licensed in Texas

A: No, not really. A person typically is free to leave his property to whomever he wants in a Will. If a person dies without a Will, his property passes according to the laws of intestate succession.

Unless a sitting Texas senator is named in the decedent's Will or is related to the decedent and entitled to inherit under the law of intestate succession, there is no mechanism by which a person--whether a sitting Texas senator or not--can accomplish such a feat.

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