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Building A Legacy, Brick by Brick

January 28, 2025 Heather Holmes

Image credit: GTurnbull925 on Wikimedia Commons

(THeToday, January 28, is International LEGO Day, an annual celebration of the world’s most popular plastic building block. From toddlers to teens, kids around the globe can’t get enough of Lego! Many adults (or AFOLs) also enjoy constructing and collecting this iconic toy.

The name LEGO is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt,” meaning “play well,” but the Latin word lego has historically been used in wills to mean “I bequeath.” So, in honor of International Lego Day and its very tenuous connection to the law, we present you with the following will drafting resources. Build your legacy with the tools below!

In 2015, the Texas Legislature enacted Section 22.020 of the Texas Estates Code, which required the Texas Supreme Court to create simple will forms for public use. The Court granted preliminary approval in September of 2022 to draft and disseminate the proposed forms for public comment. After extensive review and analysis, the Court approved final versions of the forms on May 5, 2023.

On the Forms page of the Texas Judiciary website, under the subheading, Probate & Guardianship, you will find a number of user-friendly will form templates for individuals who are single, married, widowed, or divorced and who either do or do not have children. The 8 different form templates are designed to meet the needs of most people who wish to create a basic will in Texas.

For Your Legacy: Will Form Templates

  • Will Forms - Approved by the Supreme Court of Texas — TexasLawHelp.org

  • Legal FAQs - How do I create a simple will? Is there a form for that? — Texas State Law Library

  • Wills & Estate Forms Research Guide — Texas State Law Library

For Learning: Probate Events at the Library

The learning opportunities listed below are offered every Wednesday in the Law Library at 1019 Congress. Check the library’s Events page for current sessions. Presented by Brandon Cofield, Harris County Public Probate Administrator, each session provides attendees an opportunity to better understand the probate process in Harris County and to ask questions about their own probate needs.

  • The ABCs of Small Estates (January 29, 2025 at 9:00 am)

  • Probate 101 (February 5, 2025 at 2:30 pm)

For Fun: Lego and the Law

  • Toy Building Brick U.S. Patent No. 3,005,282 — Filed July 28, 1958 by G. K. Christiansen

  • Fair Play — Lego Legal Notices & Policies

  • I Left My Law Career to be a Lego Artist — Mike Basich, The Art of the Brick

  • Legal problem solving with LEGO® — The Law Teacher (Vol. 58, Issue 3, 2024)

  • 60 Years of Lego Building Blocks and Danish Patent Law — In Custodia Legis, Law Library of Congress

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