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"You shouldn't have to choose between caring for your spouse and protecting your children."You should be able to say, "I...
10/13/2026

"You shouldn't have to choose between caring for your spouse and protecting your children."

You should be able to say, "I want my spouse to stay in our home," without your children hearing, "You don't matter."

You should also be able to talk about their inheritance without your spouse hearing, "I don't trust you."

I help you turn both wishes into specific decisions: what support looks like, which resources pay for it, who makes decisions, and what you intend to leave your children. Then I coordinate the legal plan with your account arrangements and your other advisors.

Your plan should reflect the people you love and the promises you mean to keep. Let's start there.

A document is not a plan, and a plan is only as good as the people who stand behind it. That's why I'm so happy to intro...
10/12/2026

A document is not a plan, and a plan is only as good as the people who stand behind it. That's why I'm so happy to introduce Danelle Gulley, who has joined Texas Law Solutions.

Danelle has practiced law in Texas since 1994. She holds a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, and she is a member of the Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.

She started in-house for financial services companies and spent many years as Assistant General Counsel for CSC Credit Services. In 2015, after time away to focus on her own family, she opened her own estate planning practice, preparing wills, trusts, and powers of attorney for families in her community. She built it around simplicity and convenience for busy families and elderly clients, and that heart for service is exactly what we value here.

For you, that means more attention, more depth in estate planning and probate, and a stronger team guiding your family's plan from the first conversation through every season that follows.

A native Houstonian who lives in Cypress, Danelle is a loyal fan of the Longhorns and the Astros (and any team her son is on). Her butterfly in our new logo is burnt orange, for UT.

If you've been meaning to start or update your family's plan, come meet her.

You named your spouse first and your young children second on your life insurance. The form looks finished.Here's what t...
10/02/2026

You named your spouse first and your young children second on your life insurance. The form looks finished.

Here's what that doesn't answer: if your spouse can't receive the benefit, who can legally receive and manage your children's shares? Insurers generally don't pay proceeds directly to minors. Depending on state law, a court-appointed guardian or another authorized structure may be needed to receive and hold that money until your kids are old enough. That guardian may not be who you would have chosen, and the court process to get there takes time your family doesn't have to spare.

Naming a trusted adult instead, with a promise to "use it for the kids," isn't the same arrangement. That promise carries none of the duties, oversight, or safeguards a properly designed trust actually creates. It's a hope resting on someone else's good intentions, not an enforceable plan.

A backup beneficiary should work in practice, not just look complete on the form. That means deciding in advance who manages the money, how it gets used, and what happens as your kids grow, before the day it's ever needed.

"I have a trust. Should it receive my life insurance?"The word "trust" on a beneficiary form doesn't tell you how your f...
09/30/2026

"I have a trust. Should it receive my life insurance?"

The word "trust" on a beneficiary form doesn't tell you how your family would actually receive support. Your trust might provide for your spouse during their lifetime and direct what remains to your children. Or its terms might not match that job at all. Having a trust and having the right trust for this purpose are two different things.

This matters most if you or your spouse have children from an earlier relationship. You trust your spouse. That feeling and having an actual plan for your kids are not the same thing, and they don't contradict each other either. Say your $1 million policy is meant to support your spouse and eventually help your children from a prior relationship. If your spouse receives that money outright, your shared understanding of what happens later isn't an enforceable arrangement. It's a hope. Your spouse's future decisions, their own estate plan, their own circumstances, all get to decide what actually reaches your kids.

A properly designed trust can provide for your spouse and direct the remaining funds to your children, but only if it's actually built to do that. That means real terms: who serves as trustee, how your spouse accesses money for everyday expenses, what triggers a distribution to your kids.

You can honor both relationships. It just takes making the intentions explicit instead of assumed.

"I have a trust. Should it get my life insurance instead of my spouse?"That's the wrong first question, and it's the one...
09/29/2026

"I have a trust. Should it get my life insurance instead of my spouse?"

That's the wrong first question, and it's the one most people start with.

The right question is: what do you actually want this money to do? Maybe it's to give your spouse complete, unrestricted control the moment something happens to you, no trustee, no conditions, just their money. Maybe it's to support your spouse for their lifetime while making sure whatever's left eventually reaches your kids, even kids from an earlier relationship. Those are two completely different jobs, and a beneficiary form doesn't know which one you meant. It just pays out to whoever's name is on it.

Having a trust doesn't automatically mean the trust should be the beneficiary. Naming your spouse directly can be exactly right, if unrestricted control is genuinely what you want them to have. Naming the trust can be exactly right if you want the money managed and released according to terms you actually wrote.

I start with the job the money needs to do for your family. Then we pick the beneficiary that actually does it.

Did you know that under the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, a person generally has to outlive their spouse by 120 hours,...
09/25/2026

Did you know that under the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, a person generally has to outlive their spouse by 120 hours, five full days, before the law treats them as having actually inherited?

Two days of surviving your spouse isn't enough under that default. In jurisdictions and documents that follow it, you're treated as if you'd died at the same time, and your assets pass to your own backup beneficiaries instead of flowing through your spouse's estate at all.

That means "my spouse technically died first" doesn't automatically settle who inherits what. Your plan might use a different survival period than the default. Your retirement account and your life insurance policy might each follow their own separate instructions, unrelated to what your will or trust says.

Don't change a beneficiary form based on the five-day number alone. The real fix is a review that connects your actual documents, your account designations, and your family relationships, so you know exactly what applies to you before your family ever has to work it out during the worst week of their lives.

"We have a joint trust. If we both pass around the same time, are we already covered?"Having the trust doesn't tell you ...
09/23/2026

"We have a joint trust. If we both pass around the same time, are we already covered?"

Having the trust doesn't tell you what its instructions actually say. It needs to address the first death, any required survival period, and where the property goes after both spouses have died. Retirement accounts and life insurance policies often have their own separate beneficiary instructions that may not match the trust at all.

Here's where this gets serious, especially if you or your spouse have children from a previous relationship: Say your will leaves everything to your spouse, trusting them to provide for your kids too. Your spouse outlives you by two days, then passes. Their will leaves their estate to their own children. Depending on the survival requirement in play, your children from your first marriage may inherit nothing, not because anyone changed their mind, but because two separate documents were never asked to account for that exact sequence of events.

Neither outcome should be a surprise your family discovers while they're grieving.

I start with your actual intentions: who should be supported, which children should inherit what, and what happens if neither of you can carry the plan forward. Then I review how your trust, your asset titles, and your beneficiary forms work together under state law, so the plan matches what you actually meant, not just what each document happens to say on its own.

Here's something most couples never think to ask: what happens if you both die within days of each other, not the same i...
09/23/2026

Here's something most couples never think to ask: what happens if you both die within days of each other, not the same instant, just close together?

Your will says "everything to my spouse." Your spouse’s will says "everything to my kids." If your spouse technically outlives you, even by a day, your assets can legally pass into your spouse's estate, and from there, out to whoever their will names, your kids, their kids from a prior marriage, whoever they'd written in.

Neither document did anything wrong. They were just never asked to account for the other. Nobody sat down and said, "What if this happens to both of us, close together, in that order?"

That's the conversation I have with couples before anything happens, while you can both still tell me exactly who you meant to protect. I connect your survival requirements, your beneficiary forms, and your actual intentions into one plan, instead of two separate documents quietly working against each other.

Your family should inherit your intentions, not a timing puzzle nobody built on purpose.

"My daughter is responsible. Why would I put her inheritance in a trust?"Because being responsible doesn't stop a lawsui...
09/20/2026

"My daughter is responsible. Why would I put her inheritance in a trust?"

Because being responsible doesn't stop a lawsuit or a business downturn from reaching her money.

Here's the scenario. She inherits $900,000 outright. She puts $300,000 of it into her practice, the same practice where she personally guaranteed a line of credit years before she ever inherited a dollar. The practice has a rough year. The lender calls the guarantee. Because that $300,000 sits in her name with no separation from her personal assets, it's now fair game to satisfy a business debt that has nothing to do with her judgment or her character.

If that same $300,000 had been left in a properly designed trust instead, it would never have been available to reach in the first place. Not because she's less trusted with it, but because a trust creates a legal line between what she owns personally and what a business creditor, a lawsuit, or a divorce can actually get to.

That's the real answer to "why a trust." It was never about her ability to manage money. It's about keeping her inheritance out of the reach of risks that belong to her career or her life, not her decision-making.

Did you know that 53.1% of general surgeons and nearly 60% of OB-GYNs will be sued at least once in their career, accord...
09/18/2026

Did you know that 53.1% of general surgeons and nearly 60% of OB-GYNs will be sued at least once in their career, according to a 2026 AMA analysis? Most of those claims are dropped or dismissed before trial. Most of those physicians never made a medical error.

Here's why that statistic matters for how you leave an inheritance. A lawsuit doesn't check whether the money it's chasing came from a paycheck or an inheritance. If your child's inheritance is sitting outright in their personal name when a malpractice claim is filed, it's just as reachable as everything else they own, even though it has nothing to do with their practice and everything to do with the family wealth you built separately.

A properly designed trust keeps that inheritance outside your child's personal asset pool. If a claim is ever filed against them, and statistically, for a surgeon or OB-GYN, one likely will be, the inheritance simply isn't part of what a plaintiff can reach. Their career risk stays their career's problem. It never becomes a threat to what you spent decades building.

That's not a hypothetical for families with a doctor in them. It's closer to a statistical certainty worth planning around.

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