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Court Reversed Summary Judgment And Held That There Was A Fact Issue On Whether The Testator Had Mental Capacity To Execute A Will

Winstead PC on 10/3/2023

In Castello v. Ex’r of the Est. of Castello, the decedent died leaving a will that left his property to his wife “for life” and then to his three children by a prior marriage. No 03-22-00012-CV 2023 Tex. App. LEXIS 4454 (Tex....more

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Court Reversed Summary Judgment And Held That There Was A Fact Issue On Whether The Testator Had Mental Capacity To Execute A Will

Court Holds That Holographic Will Was Not Valid As There Was No Signature

Court Reverses Summary Judgment On The Issue Of Whether A Testatrix Had The Mental Capacity To Execute A New Will

Independent Executor Had Authority To Sell Estate Real Property Despite Nothing In The Will Giving Him That Authority

November Trust and Estates Litigation Advisory

Executor’s Duties Before Receiving Letters

Estate Planning › Probate › Summary Judgment

Court Reversed Summary Judgment And Held That There Was A Fact Issue On Whether The Testator Had Mental Capacity To Execute A Will

Court Holds That Holographic Will Was Not Valid As There Was No Signature

Court Reverses Summary Judgment On The Issue Of Whether A Testatrix Had The Mental Capacity To Execute A New Will

Independent Executor Had Authority To Sell Estate Real Property Despite Nothing In The Will Giving Him That Authority

November Trust and Estates Litigation Advisory

Executor’s Duties Before Receiving Letters

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