Links Government/University/Bar Associations Lawyers' and Other Legal Links Email Listing for Estate Planners Search Engines Links & More Links Airlines/Airfare Autos Lodging News & Weather Resources GOVERNMENT/UNIVERSITY/BAR ASSOCIATIONS Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute - provides up to minute Supreme Court opinions, state law resources, and more.( www.law.cornell.edu) American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ATCEC) Site - Contains articles, tax rulings, etc. of interest to estate planning lawyers. (www.actec.org) The UT Law Library's "Essential sites for Texas Lawyers" - links to primary and secondary sources of interest to Texas lawyers (www.law.utexas.edu/cle/) Thomas - U.S. Congress on the Internet - legislative information on federal legislation, including full text versions of pending bills. (http://thomas.loc.gov) IRS Web Site - Official web site of the Internal Revenue Service and a great source of downloadable forms. (www.irs.ustreas.gov) IRS Written Determinations - PLRs, TAMs,& other IRS rulings for free beginning in 1999. (www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/news/efoia/determine.html) National Committee on Planned Giving - Best beginning place to find information on charitable remainder trusts & other charitable giving techniques, including related links. (www.ncpg.org) The National Association of Elder Law Attorneys Site - information about the organization and mostly informative for members (www.naela.com) The Harris County Probate Courts Site - information about each Court including staff and docket information (www.co.harris.tx.us/probate) The Texas Computer and Technology Section of The State Bar of Texas -information source with many links (www.cs.sbot.org) The Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section's Site - materials from Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course and the Advanced Drafting courses since 1993 in a searchable format (www.reptl.org) State Bar of Texas Professional Development Program Site - bar sponsored CLE , CLE opportunities on the internet and other links (www.texasbarcle.com) Texas Bar Association's Board of Legal Specialization (TBLS) Site - TBLS maintains an online Directory of all currently certified attorneys for easy access in additon to up-to-date TBLS events and developments along with standards , rules and regulations. (www.tbls.org) Harris County Appraisal District - tax appraisal records (www.hcad.org) Texas State Comptroller - information including Texas State inheritance Tax forms and appraisal district information (www.window.state.tx.us/) The State of Texas Web Site - LOTS of information about Texas, Texas government, census, sales tax, maps, etc. (www.state.tx.us/) Texas Legislature Online - free site contains information that Texas Legislative Service has, statutes, and downloadable Texas Probate Code (www.capitol.state.tx.us/) Lawyer Advertising - information on ethics rules affecting Texas lawyer's home pages on the Web (www.txethics.org/frames98.htm)   LAWYERS' & OTHERS LEGAL LINKS The Texas Probate Web Site - Glenn M. Karisch of Barnes & Karisch, P.C. maintains this site - excellent information on Texas probate legislation and spotty coverage of other Texas issues & includes some forms (www.texasprobate.com) Wills on the Web - attorney Mark Welch's collection of wills of famous people (www.ca-probate.com/will.htm) Larry Anderson's Legal Directory - interesting and useful will and probate information, including some forms and a great links page (http://home.earthlink.net/~laanderson/aalegal.htm) Sterling Minor's Memo for Newly Appointed Texas Executors and Administrators - useful information as one attorneys instructions for newly appointed executors/administrators. (www.sterlingminor.com/Docs/exeins.htm) Also available: "Choice of Entity for Asset Protection" (www.sterlingminor.com/Docs/APEntity.pdf) Courts.net - Information on every Court in the country including Texas and online opinions (www.courts.net) Estate Planning Links - Site contains hundreds of well-organized, time saving links to Estate Planning, Elder Law, Tax and related websites. Created by Dennis Kennedy in 1995, web site is maintained by Dennis Toman at Booth, Harrington, Hohns & Toman, LLP. in Greensboro, N.C. (www.estateplanninglinks.com) Noel C. Ice's Web Site - Complete and exhaustive (if not exhausting) presentations on estate planning, trusts, and IRAs. Highly recommended as authoritative source. (www.trustsandestates.net) EMAIL LISTING FOR ESTATE PLANNERS The Texas Probate Mailing List (Subscription Information ) - information for Glenn Karisch's Texas Probate email listing (probate@io.com) a list for Texas estate planning, probate and trust lawyers (www.texasprobate.com/main/list.htm) The ABA-PTL List Archives - information on estate planning and probate law on the internet which links to the most searchable archives (www.mail.abanet.archives/aba-ptl.html) The GIFT-PL List Archives - mailing list about charitable gift giving techniques and links to searchable archives (www.listserv.iupui.edu/archives/gift-pl.html)   SEARCH ENGINES AroundHouston - www.aroundhouston.com Ask Jeeves - www.askjeeves.com Catalog City (catalog links) - www.catalogcity.com Dogpile - www.dogpile.com Excite - www.excite.com Google - www.google.com Infoseek Ultra - www.ultra.infoseek.com InterNIC - www.rs.internic.net JimWorld - www.virtualpromote.com Learn the Net - www.learnthenet.com Lycos, The Internet Catalog - www.lycos.com Metacrawler - www.metacrwaler.com Prodigy - www.prodigy.com The List - www.thelist.com   LINKS & MORE LINKS AIRLINES/AIRFARE Aeromexico www.aeromexico.com Alaska Air Group www.alaskaair.com American Airways www.aa.com British Airways www.britishairways.com Continental Airlines www.continental.com Delta Air Lines www.delta-air.com KLM Royal Dutch Airlines www.klm.com Lowestfare.com www.lowestfare.com Lufthansa www.lufthansa.com Northwest Airlines www.nwa.com Priceline.com www.priceline.com Qantas Airways www.qantas.com SAS www.sas.com Southwest airlines www.iflyswa.com Swissair www.swissair.com TWA www.twa.com US Air www.usairways.com   AUTOS Alamo Rent A Car www.alamo.com Avis Rent A Car www.avis.com Budget Rent A Car www.budgetrentacar.com Car and Driver Buyer's Guide www.caranddriver.com Enterprise Rent A Car www.enterprise.com Hertz Rent A Car www.hetz.com Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com Lowestfare.com www.lowestfare.com MSN Carpoint www.carpoint.com National Car Rental www.nationalcar.com VHR Vehicle History Report www.vehiclehistory.com   EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Electric Library www.elibrary.com Ziff Davis Univ. 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