AB Law Blog
The Cosby Show Made Him Famous. His Estate Plan Failed His Family. Here’s What We Would Have Done.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, died in 2025. One year later, his widow alleges $1.2 million in unfulfilled premarital obligations: a life insurance policy never purchased, a Roth IRA never funded, and anniversary payments never made. A nine-year-old daughter is at the center of the dispute. Here’s what more thorough follow-through on the planning could have helped prevent…
Make-A-Will Month Is a Good Reminder. But Business Owners Need More Than a Will.
August is Make-A-Will Month, and for most people, that is a prompt to finally get a will done. For business owners, the stakes are higher and the plan is more complicated. A personal will and a business succession plan are not the same thing. And if you only have one of them, or neither, the people who depend on you are facing a crisis you could have prevented…
Make-A-Will Month Is Here. But a Will Isn’t a Plan.
A family called us after losing their mother. She had a will, properly signed and perfectly valid. But it didn’t tell anyone who had legal authority to be with the children in the first 72 hours, who could pay the mortgage while the accounts were frozen in probate, or how she actually wanted her kids raised. She had done some estate planning. She just hadn’t done enough…
Please share your e-mail address and follow us on social media for more AB Law updates.
Contact Us
9337 Katy Freeway, Suite B-5112, Houston, TX 77024
