Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Estates Code § 112.203: PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE WITHOUT ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE OF AGREEMENT.

Where this section sits in the code

ESTATES CODE
TITLE 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY
SUBTITLE C. PASSAGE OF TITLE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DECEDENTS' PROPERTY IN GENERAL
CHAPTER 112. COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP
SUBCHAPTER E. THIRD PARTIES DEALING WITH COMMUNITY PROPERTY SUBJECT TO RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

If the personal representative of a deceased spouse's estate has no actual knowledge of the existence of an agreement creating a right of survivorship in community property in the surviving spouse, the personal representative is not liable to the surviving spouse or any person claiming from the surviving spouse for selling, exchanging, distributing, or otherwise disposing of the property.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:08Z. Source file · JSON

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