Brenham, TX
Guardianship Lawyer at Brenham, TX
Practice Areas: Guardianship, Litigation ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Obtained jury verdict validating testator's will; upheld on appeal.
Will contested filed by testator's estranged daughter, who alleged her father lacked testamentary capacity as a result of alcoholism and hoarding disorder.
OUTCOME: Successfully defended will, revoking contestants' bequest under will.
Contest of will with no-contest clause; administration of estate with ancillary litigation involving decedent's interest in family-owned corporation.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for defendant convenience store owner; upheld on appeal; denial of petition for review by Texas Supreme Court.
Dram Shop case against owner of convenience store that sold alcohol to driver who struck and killed motorcycle rider one-minute after driver left convenience store.
OUTCOME: Jury verdict awarding plaintiff damages for tortious interference with inheritance and contractual rights.
Suit by independent executor and beneficiary of estate for breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with inheritance and contractual rights, conversion and fraud.
OUTCOME: Jury verdict for client/heir, upholding survivorship designation in favor of client
Declaratory Judgment action in Dependent Administration, to enforce the survivorship designation executed by the decedent on three accounts left to one of decedent's heirs.
OUTCOME: Judgment declaring lapsed gift and identity of 45 heirs (including two adoptees by estoppel)
Declaratory judgment action to construe will provision and determine heirs who take lapsed gift under will.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment for decedent's transferees (upheld on appeal)
Defense of suit claiming fraudulent transfer of decedent's rural real property to family members
OUTCOME: Administration and closing of guardianship and probate estates
Represented guardian of the person and estate (and eventual administrator of probate estate) of an elderly woman with no spouse or children; handled the sale by guardian of personal property and five t ... racts of rural real estate, as well as filing of a lawsuit by guardian to clear title to land; upon death of ward, closed guardianship and handled administration of probate estate, with distribution of estate assets to 32 heirs.
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