When a transaction involves an estate, lien, divorce, bankruptcy, trust, or investor entity, organize the source documents before anyone guesses at the answer. This is a neutral title-and-escrow handoff—not a legal diagnosis.
Start here no matter which complication is involved. “Present,” “requested,” and “not available” are useful answers. A guessed legal conclusion is not.
“Problem property” describes a file with extra title, authority, court, lien, trust, or entity paperwork. It says nothing about the property's physical condition or value.
Property address or parcel, Texas county, transaction stage, target date, sender, parties, and the one process question that needs an answer first.
The current signed contract and every amendment or addendum already in the file. Mark missing pages instead of reconstructing them from memory.
The complete current title commitment, if issued, plus the deed, legal description, survey, and exact Schedule B or C item numbers you want to discuss.
Court and cause number, county instrument number or volume/page, agency or account reference, and entity filing details. A reference locates a record; it does not decide what that record does.
A short list labeled present, requested, or not available. Send copies and source references, not a conclusion about ownership, authority, priority, validity, or remedy.
A transaction may use more than one lane. These lists identify source documents that help the title team route a file. They do not say that any item is sufficient, controlling, effective, or the right remedy.
Send the court and estate papers that already exist. Do not use this guide to choose a probate path or decide who owns the property.
Match every question to a commitment item or recorded reference. Do not label a lien valid, released, expired, senior, junior, or enforceable.
Send the operative signed record and the title file together. This guide does not interpret a decree or tell either party what instrument or remedy to pursue.
Use the court's docket and filed documents as the source. This guide does not interpret an order, stay, discharge, abandonment, sale authority, or lien treatment.
Send the trust evidence already prepared for the transaction. Do not use this page to decide whether a trust exists, who may act, or what the trust permits.
Show the deal structure and signer record without asking this checklist to validate either one. The title team can route the packet for its own review.
These sources support the bounded document references on this page. They are not presented as a legal checklist, title opinion, or instruction to pursue a particular court or transactional remedy. Reviewed August 6, 2026.
The official commitment structure: transaction facts, numbered exceptions, and numbered requirements. The guide uses exact item references and does not interpret them.
The official source for Letters Testamentary and Letters of Administration. The page asks for copies only when already issued and makes no authority conclusion.
A local official source for searching recorded documents by name, instrument number, or volume/page. The county warns that its online database is not the official repository.
The official statutory context for signed divorce property orders. WG Title's guide requests the operative record but does not interpret its legal effect.
The official access path for federal and bankruptcy case and docket information. The guide uses the court record as the source and leaves legal analysis to counsel.
The official statutory source that includes Section 114.086. The packet list asks for a certification or relevant excerpt already prepared; it does not create one.
The official source for business filings, copies, and certificates. A public filing is a source document, not this page's conclusion about transaction authority.
The title-industry rule behind the guide's neutral availability: the resource is not conditioned on a referral, discount, or directing a closing to WG Title.
No. Start with a packet index that says what is present, requested, or not available. Include the property, county, timing, source references, and one process question so the title team can identify the next document it needs.
No. Legal effect, validity, priority, enforceability, ownership, authority, and remedies are outside this guide. WG Title can communicate its title and escrow process and its file requirements; legal advice belongs with the parties' attorneys.
No. The form saves only contact details, the property, document-group labels, source references, and a process question through WG Title's D1-first lead path. After a reference is saved, ask the team for the approved delivery method for the actual packet.
They help the title team locate the same source record you are looking at. A reference is not authentication and does not establish a document's meaning or effect.
The form records the contact, property, document-group labels, source references, and first process question in WG Title's durable lead path. It does not upload documents or ask you to paste their contents.
After the reference is saved, request the approved document delivery method. Never send wire instructions, account numbers, Social Security numbers, unredacted identity documents, or other sensitive material by ordinary email.
This resource is available on the same terms to everyone and is not conditioned on directing a closing to WG Title.
