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Practical Resources for Law Clinics

Wills, Estates and Trusts

Westlaw Resources

  • Estate Planning Form Finder - Contains estate planning and probate-related text forms, fillable PDF forms, clauses, and checklists available on Westlaw from numerous national and state form sets, including legal and business, transactional, litigation, and pleading, and practice forms.
  • Law of Wills: Texas Practice Series - Texas Law of Wills helps you understand and apply appropriate law for succession and management of estates, and guide clients to appropriate estate planning decisions.
  • Probate: Texas Practice Guide - This Practice Guide helps you understand and apply appropriate law for succession and management of estates, and guide clients to appropriate estate planning decisions.
  • Probate and Decedents Estates: Texas Practice Series - Includes commentaries on sections of the Probate Code regulating the probate of wills and administration of estates including significant Texas decisions.
  • Texas Estate Planning Form Finder - Contains the estate planning and probate materials from Stevenson's Texas Legal Practice Forms, published by West, a Thomson business. It contains pre-drafted legal and business forms.
  • Texas ProDoc includes access to Lipman's Estate Planning forms, probate documents, and small estates and wills documents. 
  • Trusts and Estates Practical Law Center - Includes practical notes, forms, checklists, toolkits, and more. 

Lexis


Probate and Estate Planning practice materials can be found in rows 45A (wills) and 84B and 85A ​for Texas-related materials. Below are a few selected materials. 


  • How to Make a Texas Will, KFT1344 .Z9 R643 1998
  • Texas Estate Planning, KFT1340 .T49 1993
  • Texas Probate, Estate and Trust Administration, KFT1344 .T49 1992
  • Texas Forms Manual: A Guide to Texas Probate, KFT1344 .A65 G53 1999