Your Legal Questions: November 5, 2026

Olivia, it's time now to answer some of your legal questions. As always, we have our Fox 26 senior legal analyst, Chris Tritico, here to help us out with it. You ready to make a difference? You know I am. Okay, let's answer some of these questions. First one from Chase. I bought plane tickets for my wife and I on JetBlue Airlines. Most airlines give you a chance to pay extra for the option to pick your own seat. We decided against doing this. However, when we got to the airport kiosk to print our tickets, it says there are no free seats available and made me pay an extra 44 bucks per person and pick a seat. There was no way to skip the step. Is this legal? If this has happened to others, is it grounds for a class action? Okay, Chase. What I'm reading here, and the part that got edited out, I think you're misreading the word free. I think when you got to the airport, what they were telling you was there was no free seats in that there was no unclaimed seats for you to now claim, and you had to pay for the upgraded seats. Not that there were free seats in that there was no charge. I think it's two different tenses of the word free. If you want to check this out and see if there's a class action, there's plenty of lawyers around that handle class action lawsuits. I do not think this is one of them. Good luck. All right. Next question coming in from Charles, who writes, earlier this year, I was volunteering in another county. A dog jumped a fence and attacked and killed my dog in about 15 seconds. The dog's owner cited by the Animal Control Office, in lieu of the citation, I requested that a donation be made to my daughter-in-law's rescue organization. When that was ignored, I filed a small claims petition for damages against the owner of the dog and the owner of record for the property where the owner of the dog lived. I learned that the property owner is deceased and the will has been probated this month. And letters testamentary have been issued. So do I have to amend my petition based on this new knowledge to read as the estate of the deceased owner? Yes, is the answer to that. Charles, you need to amend your petition and name the estate. And then you need to reserve the executor of the estate so that you get the estate properly brought into your lawsuit. I don't know how successful you're going to be in suing the estate, but that's what I would do is bring them in properly by suing the estate and then serving the executor so that you get them properly brought into the suit. Good luck. All right, final question coming in from John who writes, my wife who has recently died and I are listed as owners on car title. The names are listed separately with no joining words. Her name is listed and my name is listed. How do I change the title to my name? John, when you probate your wife's estate, you will become the executor of the estate and they'll issue you letters testamentary as we just talked about in the previous question. When you get those letters, then you'll be able to Transfer the title to your name only and take her name off of it. But you have to be the executor of the estate to get that done. If you do something different, like a small estate affidavit or something like that, you need to talk to the probate lawyer of your choice to help you get that handled. But once you get those letters, it's easy. Good luck. Sorry for his loss, but just taking some stresses off like that and knowing that information should hopefully make a little bit of a difference. All right. Thank you, Chris. You bet. If you have legal questions and you want our help, guess what? Chris is here to do that. You can start by going to our website, Fox26Houston.com. When you get there, look for Chris's segments. Those will be under the Morning News tab. And then if you need specific info, we always encourage you to find an attorney of your choice.