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Your Legacy Should Be As Unique As Your Personal Story.


You’re Never Done with your Estate Plan Documents

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the pitfalls of not reviewing and updating your estate plan documents as significant life changes occur.


Don’t Try This at Home

Should you use an online service to create your legal estate plan documents? Here are 5 reasons why you should not.


The Most Important Plan You’ll Ever Make

Attorney Margie Connolly explains how planning ahead for unexpected illness or death will save your loved ones unnecessary stress and expense.


It’s Time to Have an Awkward Conversation with Your Parents

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses why it is important to make sure your aging parents have legal documents in place in case they become ill or die.


Why you need a Medical Power of Attorney

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses how having a Medical Power of Attorney can ensure that your wishes and best interests are served when you are unable to speak for yourself to medical staff.


Who will take care of your children if you can’t?

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses how to ensure your kids are taken care of in the event you and your spouse or partner can’t be there.


Unanswered legal questions

Estate planning and probate attorney Margie Connolly discusses important legal questions that, left unanswered, could lead to legal nightmares for your family.


Legal “Stuff” Every Realtor and Property Owner should know.

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses legal issues which may raise obstacles to the transfer of ownership of real estate in Texas.


Guardianship of an adult

When a special needs child ages up to legal adulthood, or when a loved-one becomes unable to care for themselves due to age, accident or illness, it may be time to consider legal guardianship of the person.

Tools for your family estate plan

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the do’s and don’ts of planning the orderly management and transfer of your assets.

Benefits of a Trust- Persons planning for retirement and old age

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the benefits of having your assets owned by your revocable living trust in order to provide for your care as you get older, and to simplify the distribution of assets to your chosen beneficiaries.

Benefits of a Trust- Persons with young children

Attorney Margie Connolly details one of the many benefits of creating a living trust. Specifically, she discusses the importance of protecting assets for the use and benefit of children in the unlikely event that both parents die.

How Covid-19 has changed the practice of law in 2020

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses how clients may benefit from the new ways courts and law offices are doing business.

To Probate or Not to Probate

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the differences between probate of an estate with a Will, and one where a Will has not been executed.

Legal Questions Every Family Should Ask

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the questions every family should ask their attorney, including questions regarding wills, powers of attorney, and trusts as ways to protect your family from obstacles that could arise in case of death or incapacity.

Review, Revise, Relief

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the need to review your legal documents regularly to ensure your legacy is up to date. Wills, Trusts, Medical Directives, and Powers of Attorney should be kept up to date.  Review, Revise, and Find Relief

Back to School Message

Attorney Margie Connolly has a special message for teachers and school personnel.

10 Simple Steps to Estate Planning

Attorney Margie Connolly discusses the steps involved in making a legacy estate plan.  The process is simpler than you might realize.

Protecting Young Adults from Legal Nightmares

Host and Attorney Margie Connolly shares why parents of college-age and young adults should encourage their children to establish powers of attorney to protect them from legal issues regarding medical care and treatment, and keeping their financial affairs in order should they become ill or incapacitated.

What is a Living Trust?

Host and attorney Margie Connolly shares information about the pros and cons of a Living Trust, and what you need to know about “Funding” the Trust, once it is established.

What does it Mean to be Executor of a Will?

Host and Attorney Margie Connolly shares information about the duties and responsibilities of an Executor, and considerations in choosing whom to name as Executor of your Will.

To Probate or Not to Probate

Host and attorney Margie Connolly describes the Probate process, in laymen’s terms, and why it is necessary sometimes to probate a will.

What’s your plan?

Host and attorney Margie Connolly discusses wills and why you will need one. She goes into detail about the two important components of a will and how your family will be protected once you are gone.

Necessary Endings

Host and attorney Margie Connolly discusses the basics you need to know if you are considering divorce, including division of assets and child custody matters.