A Lady Bird deed lets a Texas homeowner keep full control and still skip probate. How it differs from a TOD deed, the Medicaid angle and the drawbacks.

A Texas small estate affidavit can settle a modest estate without full probate. The value limit, what it cannot transfer, and why many get rejected.

A Texas transfer on death deed can pass a home without probate. When it can stand in for a living trust, and the mistakes that send families to court anyway.

Texas recognizes handwritten holographic wills with no witnesses. That makes them easy to write and easy to contest. Here is when one holds up in probate.

When you die without a will in Texas, the Estates Code decides who inherits. A spouse plus children from a prior relationship makes the split surprisingly messy.

Texas is the only state that probates a will as a muniment of title, skipping full administration. Here is when it works and when the court will not allow it.