When my husband died last year, his daughter became his Executrix. She told me that she s planning to claim that her father was entitled to the interest on my investments. I ve tried to tell her different. A.U. Twenty-two years is a long marriage, and I m sorry that your stepdaughter is threatening the good memories from those years. You would have gotten married to her father in 1976 a fact that could be leading her into making this claim.
Laws seem to change constantly, sometimes for the better.
In Texas, the law of premarital agreements was based on a 1948 law. It was valid still in 1978, when it was used as the basis for a court decision that would have supported your stepdaughter s ideas. However, that court decision was unpopular, and resulted in a 1980 reversal to the law. Let me be more explicit. If an asset produced income during the marriage, that income was community property even if they tried to say otherwise in a contract.