Plain-language information about the documents you can make for Texas with our templates: what each one does, how it is signed, and the rules people get burned by. This content is not legal advice.
A typed Texas will needs a writing, your signature, and two credible witnesses at least 14 years old who sign in your presence. Get the ceremony right — and add the affidavit that keeps your witnesses out of probate court.
7 min readA Texas will takes two witnesses, no notary. Here is the step-by-step signing checklist and the mistakes that undo it.
5 min readTexas prescribes an exact statutory form for financial powers of attorney. Here is how the initialed powers work, what the durability language means, and the signing rules that make it valid.
8 min readA Texas power of attorney takes no witnesses and a notary. Here is the step-by-step signing checklist and the mistakes that undo it.
5 min readThe Texas Medical Power of Attorney names the person who speaks for you when you cannot. The statute prescribes the exact form — here is what it says, what your agent can and cannot decide, and how to sign it correctly.
7 min readTexas calls its living will a Directive to Physicians — a statutory form that speaks for you when a terminal or irreversible condition takes your voice. Here is how it works.
7 min readA Texas healthcare directive takes two witnesses, no notary. Here is the step-by-step signing checklist and the mistakes that undo it.
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