Texas Panel: Deceased Common-Law Husband’s Employer Lacks Standing In Probate Case

Mealey's (July 25, 2022, 1:54 PM EDT) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas appellate court on July 21 dismissed a former employer’s appeal of a probate court’s finding that the surviving common-law wife of the decedent and former employee is an heir to his estate, finding that the employer lacked standing to intervene in the probate case because it did not have a “pecuniary interest” in the estate....