About

When you hire a probate lawyer, you are choosing who will represent you in a Bexar County probate court when a relative, executor, or trustee takes a position you cannot accept. This page explains what KREIG San Antonio handles, what it does not, and what happens when you call.

A Contested Probate Practice

Any licensed Texas lawyer may file a will contest, and many do so only once in a career. Our San Antonio office handles contested probate matters, dependent administrations, and large or complex estates.

What Experience Means for You

KREIG LLC has handled 500+ estates. That experience shapes your first conversation with us.

• We can quickly identify which facts matter to your case and which do not.
• What alarms a family is often routine, and what looks routine is sometimes the key to the case. Experience helps tell the difference.
• We have seen these problems before, including inventories missing an account, a sibling living in the house rent-free, and trustees who stop communicating.
• We will tell you how long your case is likely to take. A contested matter often runs more than a year.

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Contested Matters Only

This office takes contested matters, dependent administrations, and large or complex estates. Contested work involves discovery into how someone handled money, depositions of family members, mediation, and preparing for trial. A practice built around drafting documents is not set up for that work.

• Will contests, and defending a will someone else is attacking.
• Removal of an executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian, and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Contested heirship, where the identity of the heirs is in dispute.
• Dependent administration, where the court supervises each step because the parties do not trust each other with the money.
• Inherited real property and partition disputes among co-owners.
• Trust litigation, including accountings and disputes with a trustee.

Each is set out on the practice pages.

What We Don’t Handle

We do not handle muniment of title, small estate affidavits, affidavits of heirship, simple wills, trust drafting, routine uncontested administration, or setting up a guardianship nobody is fighting about. Another firm can do that work for less.

Why Probate Experience Matters in Bexar County

Bexar County has three statutory probate courts. Most Texas counties have none, and probate cases there are heard by the county court or a county court at law along with everything else on the docket. In Bexar County, the probate judges hear only probate and related matters and expect lawyers who know that area well.

It also means more can be resolved in one court. The Bexar probate courts have jurisdiction to decide the issue of title to real or personal property, so a dispute over who owns the house can stay in the same court. They also hear actions by or against a trustee and matters involving inter vivos, testamentary, and charitable trusts, because the district court’s otherwise exclusive trust jurisdiction does not reach them. The estate dispute and a related trust dispute can be heard together, which is not possible in a county without these courts.

Gov’t Code 25.0171(c); Gov’t Code 25.0173(a); Estates Code 32.006; Property Code 115.001(a) and 115.001(d)(1).

The local rules also matter. Under the Bexar County probate courts’ local rules, approved September 25, 2026, Rule 6.2(b) provides that except for good cause shown the court will generally require mediation before a contested matter is set for final trial, so cases are prepared for mediation well before trial. Rule 3.2(a) requires an attorney to apply to serve as administrator, to apply for guardianship of another, or to speak for a beneficiary, heir, or creditor. Rule 8.1(b) lets the court set a case on its dismissal docket once it has been pending over a year with no trial setting, final hearing, or signed interlocutory order. A lawyer who rarely practices here may learn these rules at your expense.

How Intake Works

Your first call goes to our intake staff, not an attorney. They will find out whether your matter is the kind we handle and whether a deadline is already running. If it is a fit, we will schedule a consultation.

Have this ready when you call, or send it through the contact page first:

• The will, and any earlier version you know of.
• Date of death, the county of any filing, and the cause number if one is open.
• Names and current addresses for everyone who stands to inherit.
• Any inventory, accounting, or letter from the executor, administrator, or trustee.
• Deeds or statements for whichever asset is in dispute.
• A short timeline: what happened, when, and when you first found out.