Texas Transactional Law
Real estate and probate attorneys
The Texas transactional law attorneys and staff of White-Shaver can assist you in some of the more routine but necessary business transactions that you may experience most often. These include:
Business organization
- Creating and perpetuating the operation of business entities, including the formalities of filing with the Secretary of State
- Buying or selling business entities
- Entering into and evaluating franchise relationships
- General contract review and drafting
Governmental and municipal transactions
- Constitutional challenges to ordinances
- Proper handling of environmental matters
- Resolving land use issues
- Providing code enforcement
- Analyzing utility and franchise matters
- Securing municipal bonds
Real Estate
- Title examination and resolution of title curative issues
- Buying and selling real estate, including preparation of real estate contracts, and closing the transactions for local title companies
- Documenting owner financing and review of third-party lender documents
- Documenting and conducting foreclosure proceedings, if necessary
Probate
- Evaluating the appropriate process for your particular situation
- Affidavit of heirship
- Small estate affidavits
- Probate as muniment of title
- Independent administration
- Walking client through the required steps of any form of estate administration, from probate of will to closing estate
- Creating guardianships for minors or incapacitated persons
- Assisting court appointed guardians or agents throughout administration of the guardianship estate
Estate planning
- Evaluating the needs and wishes of the client
- Creating a Will that leaves the client content with the ultimate disposition of the estate
- Utilizing the advantages of the Texas Independent Administration system
- Considering utilization of financial and health care powers of attorney and other means of avoiding guardianship upon disability of client
- Drafting and executing appropriate documents to accomplish clients' goals
Texas commercial lawyers at White-Shaver PC are dedicated advocates for their clients in the areas of commercial litigation, environmental law and toxic tort litigation, insurance defense, transactional law, intellectual property and trade secret litigation, mediation and alternate dispute resolution, and appellate law. With offices in Dallas, Houston and Tyler, they are conveniently located to serve Texas and surrounding states.
