James Van Der Beek secured a down payment for his family's ranch in Texas prior to his death. "James secured [a] down payment for the Texas ranch for the family with the help of friends through a trust so they could shift from rent to mortgage," his rep told People on Saturday, February 14. James and his wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, had been living outside of Austin, Texas, with their six children since leaving California in 2020. (The pair shared daughters Olivia, 15, Annabel, 12, Emilia, 9, and Gwendolyn, 7, and sons Joshua, 13, and Jeremiah, 4.