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Pro Se Executors—Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Or Not?, Michael Hatfield
Pro Se Executors—Unauthorized Practice Of Law, Or Not?, Michael Hatfield
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This Article clarifies why under Texas law an individual named as executor in a will has the right to offer the will for probate and otherwise appear in a probate court without hiring a lawyer. This Article first provides an overview of the independent administration provisions of the Texas probate code before reviewing the unauthorized practice of law prohibition and the pro se exception. After establishing that executors qualify for the pro se exception in Texas because executors appearing in court are exercising their own management rights—rather than the rights of "the estate" or the beneficiaries—the Article explores suggestions of …
From What Time Does A Will "Speak"?, Fowler V. Harper
From What Time Does A Will "Speak"?, Fowler V. Harper
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An Inroad Upon Fiduciary Integrity, Edson R. Sunderland
An Inroad Upon Fiduciary Integrity, Edson R. Sunderland
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It is a principle universally recognized throughout our system of law, that no person shall be permitted to occupy a position of trust and confidence who at the same time is clearly subject to influences hostile to a faithful performance of his trust. There is a rule as old as Christianity, and it has been incorporated into our law from the earliest times, that "no man shall serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other." Fiduciary relations can rest upon no foundation but …