Texas Estate Planning & Probate
Protect Your Family with a Texas Estate Plan
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and probate filings - assembled for Texas families from your own answers, with execution reminders.
Every clause is drawn from the verified Texas statutes and every answer is typed as you wrote it. No model writes, phrases, or reviews your documents.
Built for individuals and families preparing their own Texas estate plan, and for the attorneys and firms who do it for a living.
Texas-only self-help software. Not a law firm. This software is not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney.
Every Texas plan is assembled from your own answers
Texas-only
Your answers, typed as written
Private document storage
Source-locked Texas law
TrusteeClear integrated
Built for real Texas families
Whoever you are protecting
Affordable estate planning should not feel like it was built for only one kind of family. EstateDraft serves Texas parents, caregivers, blended families, older relatives, successor trustees, and the people who simply want their loved ones to have clearer instructions.
For every Texas family
Estate Planning, in plain language you can act on
It isn’t about wealth — it’s about the people you love. Assemble the documents your family needs from your own answers, read the general Texas rules with every section cited, and start with a free preview.
Create your Estate Plan
Answer a questionnaire that asks only what each article needs, and get a Texas will, living trust, power of attorney, or healthcare directive assembled from those answers — typed as you wrote them, every clause cited to the statute, ready to sign once it says what you want.
Start your plan →Read the general rules
Plain-language guides to Texas wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and probate — every rule cited to the verbatim section, recommending nothing. How the rules apply to you is a question for a licensed Texas attorney of your choosing.
Open the Learning Center →File with the court's own forms
Where Texas publishes official forms, the platform serves the court's own bytes — pinned and verified — and types your answers onto them as written. Signature and notary lines always stay wet-ink.
See the probate filings →EstateDraft is a nonlawyer tool, by design. It records the answers and choices you supply; it does not select a document for you, apply the law to your situation, or review your entries. This software is not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney.
How a document is assembled
Your answers. The Texas statutes. Nothing in between.
Each instrument is a fixed clause library keyed to the Texas statutes. The questionnaire asks only what the named article needs, and every answer lands in that article typed as you wrote it.
The clause is fixed
Every operative clause is drafted in advance and cited to the Texas statute it rests on. No model writes, rephrases, or "improves" it at request time.
The answer is verbatim
What you type is what the document says — no software-supplied default fills a dispositive term, and a blank answer stays a visible blank to complete before signing.
The choice is yours
Where an instrument needs an election, the software states the general Texas rule for each option and records the one you choose. It does not choose for you.
Built into every document
Every citation is a real section, held verbatim.
Every Texas statute a document cites is a section held in our source-locked corpus, pinned by SHA-256. A section the corpus does not hold cannot be cited — the build fails before it ships. Format-correct is not the same as real.
Provenance checkruns in CI on every release
Tex. Est. Code § 251.051Source-locked
§ 999.999 — no such sectionBuild fails
Verifiable, not promised
What the platform holds
Each of these is live today and checkable — the corpus, the published eval, the court’s own forms, and the general rules, cited to the section.
The workstation
Where findings become decisions
Work the rail: each finding in front of you, your revision in place, your note on the record. The gate opens only when the last finding falls — and the file shows who decided what, and when.
Estate of John A. Carter5 findings
Approved
Revised
Approved
Rejected
Pending
Finalization gateLocked — 1 finding open
Built for scrutiny
Defensible by design
If anyone ever asks how AI was supervised on this matter, the answer is already in the file — in the attorney’s words, under their timestamps.
Append-only audit log
Adjudications are written to an immutable record — superseded, never quietly erased.
Reviewer identity & timestamps
Every event records who decided, what changed, the stated reason, and when.
A gate, not a suggestion
The finalization gate is enforced in software. Open findings block the final document.
Decision packet for the file
Each finding, its disposition, and the language as approved — built for the matter file.
🛡 Deterministic assembly, pinned statutes
Accurate by design — not just “AI.”
In the self-help lane EstateDraft runs no model at all: every statute, citation, and clause is fixed, source-locked text drawn from the official Texas statutes, and every answer is yours, typed as written. Firms license Claude Opus 4.8 inside a gated workstation, fenced off from the operative law and adjudicated by their own attorney.
📜 Statute-locked legal language🚫 No AI-written law — zero hallucination🔒 No model in the self-help lane🧬 Statutory quotes byte-verified against the hashed corpus🧪 EstateBench-published: 469/469 reproducible checks
Connectors & the signing table
It lives inside Word — and owns the ceremony
The Word add-in checks every statutory citation in your open document against the source-locked corpus, right in the taskpane. The Execution Ceremony layer runs the signing itself — who signs, in what order, who may not witness, every formality cited — with an append-only execution record. Calendar deadlines subscribe natively; Clio, DocuSign, and bank sync connect under your firm’s own credentials.
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Firm activation
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What we produce
Complete Texas instruments — not templates with blanks
Last Will & Testament
Tex. Est. Code ch. 251
Revocable Living Trust
Tex. Prop. Code ch. 112
Durable Power of Attorney
Tex. Est. Code ch. 752
Directives & Medical Power of Attorney
Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 166
Probate applications & letters
Tex. Est. Code chs. 256 & 301
Notices, inventory & accountings
Tex. Est. Code chs. 308 & 309
Official court forms
The court’s own forms — pinned, verified, filled
The Supreme Court of Texas will forms and pinned county probate lanes — each one the publisher’s own PDF, byte-verified by SHA-256 before every fill. A free guided questionnaire puts your answers verbatim onto the court’s own fields; signature and notary lines always stay wet-ink.
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Premium module
TrusteeClear™ — for the successor trustee
When someone steps in as trustee of a Texas trust, TrusteeClear™ is the premium administration lane — licensable to firms as a branded client portal. The Texas Trust Code guides are live today, every duty, accounting demand, and deadline cited to the verbatim statute (Tex. Prop. Code, subtitle B), while the guided workflow — reminders, duty coaching, Death Activation™ — completes its Texas tailoring.
- Guided trustee duties & first steps
- Statutory deadline tracking
- Trust accounting & beneficiary notices
- Court forms & document vault
- Every duty cited to the statute
For law firms
White-label the whole platform
Run Estate Planning, probate, the Opposing Counsel Pass™, the workstation, and TrusteeClear™ under your own brand at firmname.estatedraft.ai — tenant-isolated, under your own attorneys. Your firm’s own clause playbook, approved by your attorneys, compiles into every document with firm-template provenance, and the accuracy dashboard shows your citation-resolution rate on your real matters.
Accurate by design
Built for Texas, defensible by design
Documents are assembled from the source-locked Texas statutes and from the answers you enter, typed as written. We tell you exactly what the software does — and what it does not do: it never applies the law to your situation, and it never reviews or grades what you wrote.
Security & isolation, not an afterthought
Tenant isolation
Every firm and consumer is isolated at the database with row-level security — not just in app code.
Encryption
Encrypted in transit and at rest; secrets are server-only and never exposed to the browser.
Provenance trail
An append-only record of what was generated, cited, and reviewed — immutable even to the service role.
Attorney review
Firm work product is adjudicated by a licensed Texas attorney before it is relied upon.
Start your Texas Estate Plan today
Assemble your plan from your own answers, cited to the Texas statutes, and sign it once it says what you want.
Administering a Texas estate? See the probate filings.
EstateDraft is document-preparation software — not a law firm — and does not provide legal advice; it is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Documents are assembled from your own answers, with no review of your situation — automated or by a lawyer.