Texas Panel Affirms Court’s Rejection Of Application To Probate Will As Untimely

(September 21, 2017, 11:25 AM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A Texas appeals panel on Sept. 19 found that a woman failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact that her ex-husband was not in default for failing to probate his wife’s will under Texas four-year limitations period, affirming in a divided opinion a lower court’s ruling denying the woman’s application to probate the will as a muniment of title in her capacity as executrix of her ex-husband’s estate (Linda Ferreira v. Douglas W. Butler, et al., No. 14-16-00648, Texas App., 14th Dist., 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 8817)....

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