Tabassi v. NBC Bank-San Antonio

Appellant, Mary Downing Tabassi, widow of Monib Tabassi, sought a declaratory judgment and other equitable relief with respect to her husband’s will, in the county court of Comal County, sitting in matters probate. She appeals the court’s allocation to her of one-half of a substantial unpaid federal income tax liability, attributable to income generated by her husband’s separate property funds on deposit in foreign bank accounts. She also appeals the court’s determination that gifts by the deceased of up to $495,851 of his special community property to his two sons of a former marriage did…