by Jeff Barnett | Mar 5, 2013 | Business and Corporate, Civil Procedure (court rules for lawsuits), Defamation, Slander and Libel, Probate
Recently, I saw a story that ran on a KEYE-TV (ch. 42, in Austin) newscast about a bill that has been proposed in the Texas legislature by Representative Jeff Leach (R) from Plano. That bill, HB 1989, is proposing to allow people to be served subpoenas through social...
by Jeff Barnett | Feb 17, 2013 | Probate, Wills & Estate Planning
Wills are the most common way for people to state their preferences about how their estates should be handled after their deaths. A person who makes a will is known as a testator (male) or testatrix (female). A will is similar to an instruction booklet for the probate...
by Jeff Barnett | Dec 27, 2012 | Wills & Estate Planning
After working hard your entire life to provide for your family, you should not allow the Texas Probate Code and the courts to decide how your assets are distributed. This newsletter points out the various problems of dying without a will and how these consequences are...
by Jeff Barnett | Jun 29, 2010 | Employment, Noncompetition Agreements
Despite what you may have heard to the contrary through the years, noncompetition (or noncompete) agreements can be enforceable in Texas, and it makes no difference that Texas is an “at-will employment” state. However, if the only promise made by the employer in the...
by Jeff Barnett | Jun 8, 2010 | Defamation, Slander and Libel, Uncategorized
The internet and social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have become a huge part of life in 2010, and in recent years. We post about everything from legal opinions, to what car to buy, to what political candidate to vote for. We post about ourselves and we post...
