We understand the difference between legal authority and insurable title.
Counsel chooses the legal path. WG Title identifies the record, evidence, signatures, and underwriting approval the closing file still needs.
For probate, real estate, divorce, tax and bankruptcy counsel
Texas title and escrow for attorneys
Five practices. One closing question: can this client convey?
WG Title gives counsel a practice-specific route from the legal posture to the insured land record—then gets the title decision in writing before the contract deadline becomes the next emergency.
Legal posture, record evidence, underwriting decision, and closing control—on one desk.
Fast answer
What should a Texas attorney expect from a title company?
A useful title company should identify the record evidence, signatures, payoff or lien work, escrow instructions, and underwriting approval the transaction needs, then put unresolved requirements in writing early. Counsel controls legal strategy and drafting; WG Title controls its title search, escrow workflow, and underwriter escalation.
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Why attorneys use WG Title
We translate the matter into a closing file without taking over the matter.
The law, public record, court order, contract, and title policy do different jobs. WG Title keeps those boundaries clear and makes the unresolved closing question visible early.
A title objection should come with the document or decision that resolves it.
We deliver legible source documents, put unusual questions in front of the underwriter early, and report the actual answer instead of paraphrasing it.
We work with you, not around you.
WG Title does not advise your client or take your client. WG Law is a separate company, and no referral is automatic or assumed.
The attorney file brief
Put the posture, record, risk question, and closing sequence in one file.
The artifact changes by practice. The discipline does not: name what is known, who decides the missing issue, and what must happen before funding.
- 01
Name the legal posture
Tell us the practice area, procedural posture, property, parties, target transaction, and hard date.
- 02
Build the record package
We gather the recorded instruments, commitment exceptions, court record, authority evidence, lien data, and closing instructions relevant to that posture.
- 03
Put the risk question in writing
The escrow officer turns the facts into a precise underwriting question and gets the requirement or decision back into the file.
- 04
Close the same transaction counsel approved
Documents, signatures, payoff, settlement statement, recording order, and disbursement should all describe the same result.
Why a legally correct file can still stall
Counsel, escrow, and underwriting make different decisions.
Counsel determines the client's legal strategy. The escrow officer assembles the closing facts and documents. The underwriter decides what evidence and cure the title insurer will accept before taking policy risk.
Counsel
Chooses the procedure, advises the client, and drafts the legal instruments or court request.
Escrow officer
Builds the file, states the requirement, coordinates signatures and funds, and carries the question to underwriting.
Underwriter
Decides whether the proposed evidence and cure support the requested owner and lender coverage.
Choose the matter file
Each practice gets its own clearance desk.
Every page identifies the recurring stall, the closing response, the decision-maker, and the primary authority behind the issue.
01Authority path
Probate
WG Title turns the probate posture into an underwriting path, protects the approved attorney invoice in the closing workflow, and pushes for a decision before the buyer's deadline becomes the next emergency.
- Typical stall
- Letters, heirs, sale authority, dependent-sale sequence, TODD, or approved fee is incomplete.
- WG Title move
- Map the probate path to the signers, recordable authority, fee direction, and underwriter decision.
02Exception register
Real estate
WG Title delivers the commitment with its legible exception documents, turns objections into written underwriting decisions, and coordinates the survey, authority, instruments, and closing sequence with counsel.
- Typical stall
- The commitment arrives without legible exceptions or an objection never reaches a decision-maker.
- WG Title move
- Deliver the source file, assign every exception, and return the written underwriting answer.
03Decree-to-record ledger
Divorce and family
WG Title reads the property award as a future sale or refinance file, identifies the record and underwriting consequences, and helps finish the chain while both spouses and the court record are still available.
- Typical stall
- The award, homestead facts, conveyance, owelty documents, liens, and intended later transaction do not align.
- WG Title move
- Review the future sale or refinance file while counsel can still finish the decree and record chain.
04Deadline control sheet
Tax
WG Title translates counsel's tax structure into a controlled closing calendar for withholding, exchange documents, lien clearance, tax certificates, redemption periods, and disbursement.
- Typical stall
- FIRPTA, 1031, tax-lien, rollback, redemption, or appraisal timing is raised after the calendar is fixed.
- WG Title move
- Convert tax counsel's direction into documented closing owners, dates, forms, funds, and approvals.
05Court-order clock
Bankruptcy
WG Title reads the motion, notice, service, entered order, docket, stay posture, estate interest, and liens as one underwriting package before anyone promises the funding date.
- Typical stall
- The order is entered, but the motion, notice, service, docket, Rule 6004 stay, estate interest, or liens remain unclear.
- WG Title move
- Read the entire docket package and set funding from the entered authority and applicable stay—not the hoped-for date.
The relationship, plainly
Questions counsel ask before sending a file.
WG Title provides title and escrow services. Legal advice remains with the attorney who owns the representation.
Will you give my client legal advice?
No. We are a title company, not a law firm. We explain what our underwriter requires and what title practice is; anything past that is your work, and we will say so.
What is the relationship with WG Law?
WG Law is a separate, independently operated company that shares a family name with us. It is not the same business, referrals between them are never automatic, and nothing you send us gets routed anywhere without your knowledge.
Will you take my client?
No. Attorneys send us files because that does not happen. We deal with counsel, not around counsel.
How quickly can you tell me whether the underwriter will insure this?
Faster if you tell us the posture up front. Most of the delay in an unusual file comes from the question reaching the underwriter late, not from the underwriter being slow.
Do you handle out-of-state fiduciaries and mail-away closings?
Regularly. Executors, trustees and receivers are frequently elsewhere. Tell us early and we will confirm the mechanics for that specific transaction.
What is set by the state, and what is not
Two different kinds of number.
Identical at every Texas title company: the basic title insurance premium and the promulgated endorsement charges. These are set by the Texas Department of Insurance. No company can discount them, and any company implying it can is describing something that is not legally possible.
Set by each company: the escrow or settlement fee, and the incidental charges around it. These are not promulgated, they do vary, and they are the fair thing to compare.
We would rather tell you which is which than let you assume we are cheaper on something nobody can be cheaper on.
The other side of the deal
Every transaction has more than one of you in it.
Home sellers
What you will actually net, which repairs pay you back, and what your agents are worth on your house — before the sign goes in the yard.
What we do for them →Seller agents
The resale certificate, the T-47 and the payoff are what move your closing date. We start all three the day the file opens.
What we do for them →Commercial seller agents
Entity authority and payoff structure take months to fix. Find them before you go to market, not in week six of escrow.
What we do for them →Open the attorney title file
Let the first underwriting conversation happen before closing week.
Send the practice area, property, legal posture, court or authority record, commitment, contract deadline, and the exact question that has to be decided.