Not necessarily.
If you die without a valid estate plan, Texas law determines who inherits your property based on the family
relationships that exist at the time of your death.
That does not mean the State of Texas automatically receives everything.
Depending on your circumstances, your property may pass to children, parents, siblings, or increasingly
distant relatives. Only in limited circumstances where no qualifying heirs can be identified could property
ultimately pass to the state.
Do you want Texas law deciding who receives what you have worked to build—or would you rather
make that decision yourself?
Without an estate plan, the law does not know which relationships are most meaningful to you. It does not
know whether there is a particular person you want to provide for, a ministry or charitable organization you
want to support, or how you would prefer an inheritance to be received and managed.
Creating an estate plan allows you to make those decisions intentionally.
For us, that is part of faithful stewardship: deciding how the resources entrusted to you should be cared for
rather than leaving those decisions to default rules.