For law firms · adversarial review of the firm’s own drafts
Most review tools tell a drafter what the document says. This one switches sides — it reads the firm’s Texas draft the way a will-contest attorney would, and hands every objection to the supervising attorney as a finding to approve, reject, or revise on the record.
Not available in the self-help lane. EstateDraft does not review, grade, or comment on a consumer’s documents; the Pass runs only on a firm’s own work product, under its own attorney.
Watch it switch sides
The firm drafts. The engine attacks the draft the way the other side would. The attorney rules on every finding — nothing is final until they do.
Act I — The engine drafts
Art. VI · No-Contest Clause — drafted by the engine
If any beneficiary contests this Will or any of its provisions, that beneficiary shall forfeit all gifts made to them and shall take nothing from my estate.
Opposing Counsel Pass™ — red team finding
Enforceability · § 254.005“As drafted, this clause promises more than Texas law delivers. Tex. Est. Code § 254.005 makes the forfeiture unenforceable against a contestant who establishes just cause and good faith — and it never blocks a beneficiary from compelling a fiduciary to perform. Absolute language invites a construction fight about the clause itself.”
Possible alternative language
…scope the forfeiture expressly to the limits of § 254.005, and pair it with a self-proved will (§ 251.104) and contemporaneous capacity evidence so the deterrent rests on more than the penalty…
Nothing finalizes until the last finding carries your decision.
Keep in mind: Work product for the firm's own attorney to decide: the firm's tool, under the firm's own attorney, and never advice from EstateDraft. Capabilities, limits and refusals
Where instruments break
Signals a challenger could use to argue the instrument did not reflect the maker's free, informed wishes.
Texas's signing formalities are strict. A missed step is the easiest way to void a document.
Language two readers could read two ways — the seam a contest pries open.
No backup beneficiary, no alternate fiduciary, no what-if — the gaps litigation lives in.
A trust that owns nothing protects nothing. Assets left outside still run through probate.
Whether an in terrorem clause actually deters a challenge — or invites one.
The firm's draft is assembled from its own attorney-approved clause playbook and the Texas statutes.
The engine reviews it adversarially — as opposing counsel preparing to challenge it — under Texas law, and files each objection as a finding.
The supervising attorney works the rail: approve, reject, or revise each finding, with a note on the record. The finalization gate opens only when the last finding falls.
The Opposing Counsel Pass™ is professional drafting software for licensed attorneys. It is not legal advice, it does not create an attorney-client relationship, and the supervising Texas attorney is solely responsible for every finding’s disposition and for the final instrument.
Find the cracks before someone else does — on an append-only record the file can show later.