Those Darned Restrictions!

Ready for the Summer real estate selling season? Here is a frequently asked question that has risen to the top:  How do you get rid of restrictive covenants or make changes to existing restrictions against property which are detrimental to a sale?  Like all good lawyer answers, it depends! Without any statement in the restrictions themselves about how to terminate or change …

Descent and Distribution Series, Post #1: Community Property

If you’ve been told before that “Texas is a community property state” and wondered what that referred to, this post is for you. Texas and 7 other states’ laws about inheritance and property rights derive from Spanish law, while the others derive from English Law (and Louisiana’s is from French law!).  That is significant because Spanish law considers property gained …