Real Property Transfers & Texas Trust Sales can trigger legal deadlines. Learn how Texas courts handle trust sales and ROFR disputes.
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IRS audits do happen. When they do, it seems like they drag on. But they do end. At the end of an audit, IRS auditors will almost always hand over a stack of paper. Sign here, initial there, and the case closes. The forms are dense. They almost always reference other forms. Sometimes the other… Continue reading Signing an IRS Agreement With Missing Forms
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Taxpayers move. They move their homes, they move their offices, and they file returns from whatever address they happen to be using that year. That is the way it works. The IRS is supposed to keep up. When the IRS wants to levy on a taxpayer’s property, it has to send the warning notice to… Continue reading The IRS Has to Mail Levy Notices to the Right Address
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Learn how a statutory probate bill of review can challenge Texas probate orders, transfer disputes, and probate jurisdiction rulings in court.
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A spendthrift trust is supposed to be a wall. Someone sets up a trust for a family member, adds language saying creditors cannot touch it, and the money stays out of reach even if the beneficiary gets sued and loses. That is the whole point. But a wall is only as good as the words […]
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Family ranch disputes have a way of outlasting everyone’s patience. Someone dies, land is left behind, old grievances resurface, and the person holding the pen as trustee often turns out to be one of the beneficiaries with something to gain from delay. Years pass. Nothing gets sold. Nothing gets divided. The estate grinds to a […]
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Most probate work involves the assets you can see. A house, a bank account, a retirement plan, a stack of savings bonds in a safe deposit box. But some of the most valuable things an estate owns are not things at all. They are promises. A buyer who still owes money on a deal. A […]
The post When the Seller Dies Before the Deal Closes: Membership Interest Sales, Guaranties, and the Estate’s Right to Collect appeared first on El Paso Probate Attorneys.
A business owner runs the books himself. He codes some personal expenses as business costs so the other owners will not see how much the company pays for his lifestyle. He is not thinking about the IRS at all. He just does not want his partners asking questions. Years later, the IRS shows up and… Continue reading Lying to Business Partners Becomes Tax Fraud
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Inheriting a house can feel like a gift, right up until the bills attached to it start showing up. When someone dies owning a home with an unpaid mortgage, the heirs who step into ownership do not step into a clean slate. The debt rides along with the property. And if those heirs ignore a […]
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