Texas Panel: Court Lacked Authority To Authorize Payments From Probate Estate

(December 11, 2017, 11:56 AM EST) -- HOUSTON — A Texas appeals panel held Dec. 7 that a probate court lacked authority to authorize payments from a probate estate to lawyers for services that they rendered to an executor in a related guardianship proceeding and to the executor for expenses, reversing the lower court and rendering a take-nothing judgment on the claims (In the Estate of Mary E. Larson, No. 14-16-00587, Texas App., 14th Dist., 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 11369)....

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