Texas Legislative Session by the Numbers The Texas Legislature completed the 89th regular session with impressive volume:  8,719 bills filed 1,210 sent to the Governor As of June 12, 2025, the Governor had signed 370 bills, allowed 24 bills to take effect without his signature, and vetoed 2 bills.  New Laws Seniors Should Pay Attention To For Texas lawyers, keeping up with legal changes is no easy task—it’s like trying to stop Bubba...

Differences Among Texas Statutes Confusing The Texas statutes are proudly laid out in an orderly sequence. Laws about families are found in the Family Code, laws about guardianship, probates, and inheritance reside in the Estates Code, and laws about things such as birth certificates can be found nestled within the Health & Safety Code. Helpfully, each one of these codes contains definitions, too.  The trouble is that those definitions – and...

An Estate Planning Tool to Consider I have in my trusty toolbox the estate planning documents I think every adult should have, but there are a lot of other available documents that I use only sparingly. The Supported Decision-Making Agreement is one of those.  What Is a Supported Decision-Making Agreement? A Supported Decision-Making Agreement is what I refer to as a twilight document, useful for those adults who fall in between: they...