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

Tex. Estates Code § 33.052: CONCURRENT VENUE.

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ESTATES CODE
TITLE 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY
SUBTITLE A. SCOPE, JURISDICTION, VENUE, AND COURTS
CHAPTER 33. VENUE
SUBCHAPTER B. DETERMINATION OF VENUE

(a) If applications for probate proceedings involving the same estate are filed in two or more courts having concurrent venue, the court in which a proceeding involving the estate was first commenced has and retains jurisdiction of the proceeding to the exclusion of the other court or courts in which a proceeding involving the same estate was commenced.

(b) The first commenced probate proceeding extends to all of the decedent's property, including the decedent's estate property.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1338 (S.B. 1198), Sec. 2.04, eff. January 1, 2014.

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