On June 17, 2026, the Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio reversed a key portion of the trial court's judgment in In the Matter of the Estate of Van L. "Slim" Crapps, Deceased, a will contest JW Carter Law litigated from the trial court through the court of appeals. Attorneys Jimmy Carter and Sarah Maldonado represented Van Kevin Christiansen, the decedent's only son, in the appeal. Crapps...
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Appellate Win in the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals
We are pleased to share a recent appellate victory on behalf of our clients. In Moreno v. Tidwell, No. 04-24-00387-CV (Tex. App.—San Antonio Feb. 25, 2026), the Fourth Court of Appeals wholly affirmed the clients' trial court victory. The outcome underscores the importance of strong appellate advocacy in disputes involving inherited property. This case involved real property that our clients...
When a Person’s Final Wishes Are Challenged: A Complete Trial Victory
Some cases are about more than legal technicalities. They're about whether a person's carefully considered choices, made in the final chapter of their life, will be honored or dismantled by someone with no place in the estate plan. This was one of those cases. And a Bexar County jury saw through it and delivered justice for our client. Our client was related to an elderly widow who, after losing...
Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal at Texas Tech University School of Law. Titled “Decoding Probate Litigation: Insights from a Century of Texas Will Contests,” by James W. Carter and Sarah Maldonado. Published Jan. 31, 2026.
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Breakthrough: Blood Test Makes it Possible to Track Alzheimer’s Advancement
A connection between Neurofilament light (NfL) levels present in the blood and Alzheimer’s disease was recently made in a study released by the JAMA Network.
New Study Might Diagnose CTE in Brains of the Living
A recent study published in the New England Journal of medicine revealed that brain scans of more than two dozen former NFL players found that the men had abnormal levels of the protein linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.), the degenerative brain disease we have discussed here that’s associated with repeated hits to the head.