A fee simple defeasible estate is a type of property ownership in which the owner holds title to the property with specific conditions or limitations. Fee simple defeasible estates are common in real ...

Owning real estate seems fairly straightforward. But depending on where the property is located, ownership can mean a few different things. While it's not common everywhere, some states are known to ...

Fee simple absolute is a type of property ownership that grants the owner full rights to use, sell, lease, or transfer the property without restrictions. It remains in effect indefinitely unless ...

Q: What does “fee simple” mean? I keep hearing those words but don’t understand what it is? Beverly. A: Dear Beverly: you brought me back to my first year in law school when I was struggling with Real ...

Is your assignment to determine the intent of the parties in a document? Consider it as a whole; don’t cherry pick phrases and read them in isolation. I doesn’t matter whether you are issuing checks ...

In In re Estate of Hernandez, the issue in the case was whether clauses in a will conveyed a life estate to the decedent’s husband. No. 05-16-01350-CV, 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 755 (Tex. App.—Dallas ...

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though . . . — Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” This summer I often think of these lines from Frost as I glide in ...