Jerry's Prudence
Jerry SimoneauxReflections from a Texas judge on probate law, procedure, and best practices
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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Why I Don’t Require AI Disclosures
The lawyer who signs a brief owns every word in it. That was true when the research came from a clerk, true when it came from a treatise read too quickly, true when it came from a half-remembered rule the attorney was sure they knew. It was...
Reach Out and Take It: How Statutory Probate Courts Transfer Cases from Other Courts
Texas statutory probate courts hold unusually broad transfer authority—but how that authority works is far from intuitive. Unlike ordinary venue transfers, the power vests in the Probate Court rather than the sending one, and the transfer c...
The Deadman’s Rule and Hearsay in Texas Will Contests
Author’s Note: On Wednesday, I sent out an April Fools Day joke about the Supreme Court of Texas finding the Deadman’s Rule unconstitutional. I am impressed by the number of readers who immediately went to the SCOTEX website to fact-check m...
THE DEAD MAN FINALLY GETS TO SPEAK
The Texas Supreme Court does not often surprise probate practitioners. It surprised them last month.
In Speake v. Speake, 703 S.W.3d 112 (Tex. 2026), the Court held — unanimously, without oral argument — that Texas Rule of Evidence 601(b),...
The Protective Order Most Probate Attorneys Have Never Used
The Texas Estates Code calls the person under guardianship a ward — a statutory term of art that carries specific legal consequences.1 We’ll use it once more here for exactly that purpose, then set it aside. The person we’re talking about i...
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