probate and estates administration

Murray | Lobb located in Houston TX, offers services in the preparation of Family Limited Partnerships, revocable and irrevocable trusts, health care proxies, living wills, life insurance trusts, durable powers of attorney, wills and other Texas estate planning documents. Our focus is on minimizing estate taxes, preserving assets from catastrophic health care costs, and ensuring your continued security for the future.

The firm has an active probate docket in Harris, Brazoria and Galveston County courts and provides its clients with knowledgeable, caring and personal representation in a variety of probate matters. We can also advise you with respect to nursing home issues and long-term health care issues.

We can assist in putting your affairs in order so as to minimize will contests and other problems that may occur at death. Murray & Lobb are dedicated to delivering quality legal services in a timely manner and, at the same time, providing these services with personalized attention and sensitivity to sometimes complicated personal and family situations.

Services include:

• Powers of attorney
• Health care proxies
• Irrevocable trusts to preserve assets for children and other family members
• Revocable living trusts that reduce or eliminate the need for probate after death
• Estate planning
• Wills
• Probate of wills and the preparation of estate tax returns
• Applications to Medicaid for health care assistance, at home and in nursing homes
• Petitions for court-supervised guardianships

Probate is the legal process by which a persons debts are paid and assets are distributed upon her or his death.  Various probate procedures can be used depending on the circumstance in order to minimize costs and speed the process.  Many times, a full probate administration is not necessary in order to accomplish transfer of all the assets and pay the liabilities.   

Estate Administration includes the probate process as well as non-probate transfers of the decedent's assets.  Procedures necessary to complete different estate administrations may vary greatly, so, it is important to consult a firm with experience in this area of the law to ensure that the decedent's assets are distributed correctly.