For more than 25 years, How to Live—and Die—With Texas Probate has helped Texans and Texas property owners sort out the often complicated issues related to estate planning and probate law.

With contributions from more than two dozen of Texas' finest attorneys, the book was prepared under the direction of the Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Topics include: when an estate is valued and why: how debts are paid after death and much more.

A crash course in locating information about the Lone Star State. Each chapter begins with an engaging, little known, even quirky story and then shows the reader how to follow the printed and electronic trail to uncover more detail.

Answers to these and many more commonly asked questions may surprise you: 1. If I die without a will, who gets what?; 2. Is my estate too small to benefit from a living trust?; 3. Are homemade wills valid?; 4. What are the risks of writing a will without legal advice?; 5. Does a will keep my estate out of probate?; 6. Who should be my executor?; and 7. How can I save taxes on my estate?

The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.

Written in clear, conversational English, this book can help anyone understand how a living trust avoids the complications, expenses, and delays of probate at times of incapacity and death.