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Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: Expanding the Rule Evolved Since Dillon
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1986)
Proposes that new criteria be developed by Texas courts to determine negligent infliction of emotional distress. The article starts with an overview of mental anguish recovery by discussing the history and development of ...
Does the Child Witness Videotape Statute Violate the Confrontation Clause?
(Texas Tech Law Review, 1986)
Discusses the provision in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows child witnesses to testify on videotape and how it relates to the confrontation clause. The article starts by walking through the provision. The ...
Wills and Trusts
(2014)
Judicial developments in Texas regarding wills, trusts, estate planning, and other related matters from November 1, 2012 through October 31, 2013.
Probate and Trusts: Case Law Update & Statutory Update
(2000)
The first part of the article is a case law update which discusses judicial developments relating to the Texas law of intestacy, wills, estate administration, trusts, and other estate planning matters during the survey ...
Texas Elder Law 2018
(Texas Lawyer, 2017)
Texas Elder Law covers everything from dissolution of marriage to settling an estate. The book thoroughly covers the complex issues that plague estate planners and guardians. These include family and marital issues, paying ...
Wage Watch II: A Survey of Associate Salaries in Texas
(1990)
This article is a survey of salaries for Texas law firm associates in 1989. Associates in smaller firms typically received lower salaries than associates that worked at much larger firms.
Competency, Ethics, and Morality
(Texas Tech Law Review, 2017)
Examines legal, ethical, and moral issues relating to the delays faced by pretrial detainees in Texas who have been declared incompetent to stand trial and ordered to receive competency restoration services, but for whom ...
Incompetency to Be Executed: Continuing Ethical Challenges & Time for a Change in Texas
(2013)
This Article focuses on a small, but unique group of death row inmates who have largely exhausted their post-conviction procedural rights and have a date set for execution, but while awaiting execution, have become incompetent ...
Art and Antique Estates: A Guide to Planning for Life and Death
(Texas Tech Estate Planning & Community Property Journal, 2013)
Explores three topics: the current art market; art as an investment while a client is still living; and estate planning for a client's art estate. Addresses issues associated with the current lack of art-specific estate ...
Properly Interpreting Wills
(2002)
A short analysis of a 2000 Supreme Court of Texas case. Assets related to real property passed to the residuary beneficiary even though extrinsic evidence showed the testatrix wanted this additional property devised to ...