Donna J. Yarborough

Ms. Yarborough is a probate litigation attorney & guardianship attorney in Dallas handling mainly contested matters including will contests, trust litigation, and fiduciary litigation, as well as estate administration. Ms. Yarborough has extensive experience in guardianship litigation, which involves dealing with incapacitated individuals to protect their health and financial estates, representing applicants as well as defending proposed wards.  Donna as a guardianship attorney in Dallas, Texas area handled all aspects of guardianship litigation, including obtaining emergency guardianships, obtaining a divorce in a guardianship proceeding, and freezing a person’s financial estate to protect them from third parties. She is certified by the State Bar of Texas to serve as an attorney ad litem in guardianship proceedings. Ms. Yarborough has experience in handling a wide variety of estate and trust litigation, from securing Temporary Administrations to prevent the dissipation of estate assets to making critical decisions to benefit the heirs in all types of estate proceedings. She has pursued even the most unusual of cases, such as the exhumation of a body to prove heredity through DNA evidence, obtaining crime scene photos from the Dallas Police Department and photos from the Dallas Medical Examiner’s Office, convincing the judge to have a guardianship hearing at the proposed ward’s home, and successfully defending the proposed ward.  Additionally, Ms. Yarborough has been successful in getting a decedent’s loved one declared the common law spouse to that their rights were protected in the decedent’s state. Donna has litigated unique estate cases throughout her active career. Ms. Yarborough has written several articles featured in the Dallas Bar Association’s Headnotes magazine and has spoken regarding guardianship to the Probate Section of the Dallas Bar, the Texas Trial Lawyer’s Association and the Dallas Young Lawyer’s Association.