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Our Virtual Online Law Office provides secure online preparation of vital Texas legal estate planning documents. Any Texan can benefit, no matter where you are located in our very large state. These are not rote legal forms. They are individually created for you by attorney Paul Premack personally, based on your answers to detailed questionnaires. Fixed fees control your costs. All legal documents are prepared for you personally by the Certified Elder Law Attorney -- online and on your own schedule. |
Index of Available Legal Documents: (click an item below for more information) » Last Will & Testament (of various types) » Community Property Survivorship Agreement » Advance Medical Directives Medical Power of Attorney Directive to Physicians HIPAA Authorization » Durable Power of Attorney Affidavit to Confirm Validity Resignation of Agent » Declaration of Guardian » Parental Authorization » Funeral Plan Authorization » Qualified Income Trust (Miller Trust) for Medicaid » Free Legal Forms » FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions » Online Consultation Submit your legal question online to Mr. Premack for a personal, confidential legal opinion |
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index. Click
on "Go to Questionnaire" to fill in and submit your information.
Pay for the document with your MasterCard or Visa. Within
2 business days Premack will write your legal document and Email it
to you. You review it, print it, and follow the
written instructions for signing. If witnesses or a notary are
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Select the
pattern that matches your situation: ►One Will
(for a single, unmarried
person).
All heirs you select are adults.
Fixed Fee: $300
►One Will
(for a single, unmarried
person).
Some of the heirs you select may be under age minors, to whom you will leave
assets held in trust or in an adult's custody until they reach an older age
you select.
Fixed Fee: $400
►Two Wills
(for a husband and wife).
All heirs you select are adults.
Fixed Fee: $550
►Two
Wills (for a husband and wife).
Some of the heirs you select may be under age minors, to whom you will leave
assets held in trust or in an adult's custody until they reach an older age
you select.
Fixed Fee: $750
Your
Last Will
and Testament
Making a Will requires multi-level planning. You may think:
"If I die, I'll leave everything to my children." But is that enough? With
multi-level planning, you must ask the next question: "What if an
heir dies before me? Who will then get that part of my estate?" If any
level of heirs (primary or secondary) includes a person under age 21, you
should place a responsible adult in charge of that inheritance.
Currently the Virtual Law Office only prepares Wills for estates below the
federal estate tax limits.
Click here
for more information
on federal estate taxes.
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide
if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to
purchase this document.
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide
if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to
purchase this document.
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the
right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this
document.
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the
right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this
document.
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to Index of Available Documents
Community Property
Survivorship Agreement
Texas law allows you and your spouse to agree that all of your community property will pass to the survivor between you without the need for probate. A Community Property Survivorship Agreement, once filed with your County Clerk, is a giant step toward simplifying the transfer of property ownership when a spouse dies, and can save you a lot of money and time. It is one step you can take to avoid probate.
Click here for more information on Community Property Survivorship Agreement.
Fixed fee: $300
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Financial & Business Matters
Durable Power of Attorney
Durable Power of Attorney delegates authority to the person of your choice (and to alternates if you so choose). The Agent can then assist you to manage your property and finances without court intervention. This can help avoid expensive and unpleasant guardianship if you become disabled. This document is available in both "springing" and "direct" versions, and goes well beyond the basic statutory requirements to give you extra flexibility and assistance. Click here for more information on Durable Powers of Attorney.
Why not use the raw "statutory durable power of attorney" form that you can download from the internet? Here is a copy of the statutory form, annotated by Premack, showing the issues it raises and the problems it fails to address. The legal durable power of attorney that you would order from Premack cures those defects.
Fixed fee: $200
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Affidavit Confirming
Validity of Durable Power of Attorney
You are acting as Agent under someone's financial power of attorney, and are
attempting to take an action using that authority (at the bank or broker,
for example). But the bank wants to be reassured that the power of attorney
is still valid. This Affidavit meets statutory requirements (section 487 of
the Code) for giving that reassurance, giving a liability shield to the
bank.
Fixed fee: $50
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the
right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this
document.
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Resignation
of Agent (under a financial and/or medical power of
attorney)
Have you been named as the Agent in someone's financial or medical power of
attorney, but you need to step aside? Whatever your motive, you have the
right to resign.
Fixed fee: $50
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the
right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this
document.
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Advance Medical Directives
Medical Power of Attorney
A Medical Power of Attorney is your best tool for receiving uninterrupted quality health care. You may appoint the person of your choice to make medical decisions for you, if and when you become unable to make the decisions yourself. Don't be left to the whims of the medical and legal systems; appoint a trusted agent to see you through difficult health. While this document is available from a variety of sources in its "raw statutory" form, the version available here has been significantly improved, to increase your flexibility and allow you to give explicit instructions to your agent.
It is also designed to accommodate the federal patient privacy rules imposed by the HIPAA law, which is an issue that the "raw statutory" form has not been modified to address. If you purchase this Medical Power of Attorney, you do NOT need to purchase the HIPAA authorization document discussed below. (Click here to see that HIPAA Authorization.)
Click here for more information on Medical Power of Attorney.
Fixed fee: $125
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Directive to Physicians
Medical care has reached new heights of sophistication. Not always used properly, this allows doctors to maintain a body in life beyond the time nature appointed. If you want your life to end with dignity, a Directive to Physicians is your instructions that your life not be artificially prolonged if your death is unavoidable. Unlike informal "living wills", the Directive to Physicians is fully enforceable under Texas law.
Click here for more information on Directive to Physicians.
Fixed fee: $50
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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HIPAA Authorization
HIPAA stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act", but this part of it has nothing to do with insurance. The HIPAA law also put new privacy rules into play to keep your medical information out of the wrong hands. But the government and you may have totally different definitions of "wrong hands" --- for instance, the law forbids your spouse to see your medical information without your consent. This HIPAA Authorization allows people you have already selected as Agents in your other legal documents (like your Durable Power of Attorney and your Medical Power of Attorney) to know what is happening when you become incapacitated.
Click here for more information on the Federal HIPAA law.
Fixed fee: $50
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Declaration of Guardian
If you become disabled to the point of needing a guardian, a Declaration of Guardian tells the Judge who you want to have at the helm. Your choice for guardian must be followed unless not in your "best interest" at the time. Your Declaration may also tell the Judge who you refuse to have as guardian; your refusal cannot be overridden by anyone.
Click here for more information on Declaration of Guardian.
Fixed fee: $100
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Parental Authorization Agreement regarding Minor Child
If you are a parent seeking help with the daily care of a minor child -- for instance, you have asked one of the grandparents to care for your child -- you can now legally authorize that relative to make certain decisions for your minor child.
Click here for more information on a Parental Authorization. This is a complex legal document, and you should not order it until you have read more about it.
Fixed fee: $200
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Designation of Agent
to Control Disposition of Remains
(Funeral Plan Authorization)
An "Appointment of Agent to Control Disposition of Remains" allows you to give specific, legally binding funeral instructions and to appoint one or more trusted persons to see that your wishes are fulfilled. It is especially useful if you have a different philosophy from other family members, and do not want their beliefs or rites to be used at your funeral (or cremation or memorial).
Click here for more information on Designation of Agent.
Fixed Fee: $100
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Miller Trust
(Qualified Income Trust)
for Medicaid
A Miller Trust is used when a patient needs government assistance to pay for long term nursing care -- and when that patient's monthly income both 1) falls short of paying for the nursing home's monthly bill and 2) is above the Medicaid cutoff for assistance. (Click here for more information on current Medicaid dollar limits). To see if a Miller Trust is necessary in your situation, click here to access our online calculator.
Click here for more information on Miller Trust.
Fixed fee: $700
Viewing the Questionnaire is free and may help you decide if this is the right document for you. You pay only if you decide to purchase this document.
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Free legal forms available for download
| Free Affidavit of Heirship to a Motor Vehicle | |
| Free Right of Survivorship Agreement to a Motor Vehicle | |
| Free Power of Attorney to Transfer Motor Vehicle | |
| Free Out of Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Order | |
| IRS form SS-4, Request for Taxpayer ID No. | |
| Free Form 11.13, Application for Residential Homestead Exemption from local property taxes in Texas | |
| Free Form 36.06, Application to Defer or Abate Property Taxes in Texas | |
| Free Complaint form to Texas Motor Vehicle Department when new auto is a "Lemon" | |
| Free form: Center
for Disease Control's
Keep It With You Medical Information form |
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