For many reasons, you may want to leave a spouse out of your will and pass your wealth onto someone else, perhaps children. Although you cannot typically wholly disinherit a spouse in Texas, there are steps you can take to ensure your property ends up where you want it.
It can happen. If you are getting remarried and have assets you would like passed on to your children, you should seriously consider re-evaluating your estate plan. Without a proper estate plan, if you remarry, your children can become inadvertently disinherited.
For the most part, yes. If there are was no will drafted, and there are no other interested parties, the surviving spouse typically inherits the property. However, there may be assets not adequately titled that are overlooked in the probate process.