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Linking Generational Wealth-Wills & Estate Planning Clinic

The Port City Chapter of the Links, Inc. and the TSU Thurgood Marshall School of Law’s Earl Carl Institute, in conjunction with Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, is hosting a Linking Generational Wealth-Wills & Estate Planning Clinic on Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 4 - 9 pm. The clinic will be held at the church, and the following estate planning documents will be executed on-site:


Simple Will ~ Medical Power of Attorney ~ Statutory Durable Power of Attorney for Finances ~ Transfer on Death Deeds ~ Motor Vehicle Transfer on Death Form ~ Appointment for Disposition of Remains

A qr code with black squares  Description automatically generatedFor more information about each document,
see
https://earlcarlinc.org/EstatePlanning2024.



Before the clinic, you should create any or all of the documents using the guided legal forms located at https://texas.tylertech.cloud/SRL/SRL/ExecuteInterview.
This link will take you to EFILETEXASselfhelp.
Select “Start a Filing” at the top of the page, then select:

  1. Estate Planning (Power of Attorney, Advance Directive, HIPAA Release)
    After completing those documents, go back to “Start a Filing” and select:

  2. Transfer on Death Deed (to pass your home to your loved one without needing them to probate your estate).
    You will be asked a set of questions to create your documents. Once you complete these documents, you should print them and bring them to the Wills Clinic.

You can protect your legacy through a transfer on death deed that passes your home to your loved one without needing them to probate your estate. For more information on transfer on death deeds, please review the Transfer on Death Deed instructions. Please review the Transfer on Death Deed instructions for more information on TRANSFER ON DEATH DEEDS. (hyperlink to attached document).

Apply to attend the Estate Planning Clinic at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church on April 11, 2024, at https://earlcarlinc.org/GetMyWill. Pre-registration is required, and the number of available slots is limited. The income and demographics questions at this link are used for reporting to Earl Carl Institute funders and do not otherwise affect eligibility to participate in this program.

At the clinic, witnesses and notaries will be available to execute the documents you created using Texas Law Help and the wills prepared for you by the event partners, other pro bono attorneys, and TSU law students.


(download the flyer-pdf)
Wheeler Church Wills Clinic Registration



 

Message from the Director Sarah R. Guidry

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi —

The Earl Carl Institute is dedicated to identifying potential implementable solutions to legal and social issues disproportionately impacting the communities of color and other disenfranchised populations. The Institute pursues, through academic and grassroots efforts, opportunities to promote policy changes for the betterment of the urban community and to fulfill the missions of the Institute, Thurgood Marshall School of Law and Texas Southern University.  

Current ECI free legal services programs include the Opal Mitchell Lee Property Preservation Project,the ECI Juvenile Justice Project and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law Innocence Project.  ECI provides law students opportunities to gain experience working with clients, lawyers and courts through its three clinics. 

ECI’s focus is on providing research based policy advocacy through direct legal services and written materials addressing issues that have a disproportionate impact on people of color, as well as other populations traditionally disenfranchised, on a local, state and national level.  Current research projects involving disproportionate minority involvement include: Homelessness, teen dating violence, decriminalizing poverty, pretrial diversion, human sex trafficking, incarceration versus education, and issues involving disproportionate minority contact in the juvenile system.

ECI generally undertakes projects that are interdisciplinary in nature and have one of three outcomes (1) Student Development, (2) Public Policy Initiatives, and (3) Community Education.  ECI’s operations are primarily facilitated through its four centers: (1) Center for Civil Advocacy, (2) Center for Criminal Justice, (3) Center for Government Law and (4) Center for Research, Writing and Student Development.

ECI also undertakes Special Projects involving interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborations.  Current special projects include the ECI Interdisciplinary Journal for Legal & Social Policy, the TMSL Street Law Program, and annual symposiums on juvenile justiceindigent defense, and the annual ECI Journal Special Issue conference.  ECI policy or position papers target academia, the Texas Legislature, other political actors, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Judges, attorneys and other vested interests, including civil rights and advocacy groups, and individuals from other disciplines as well as the community at large.

We would love to hear from you about issues impacting your life.  Please visit us at our offices on the Texas Southern University campus.  Consider supporting our work through your tax deductible donation or become a part of the movement by volunteering with our organization.


 

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