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

Tex. Estates Code § 33.053: PROBATE PROCEEDINGS IN MORE THAN ONE COUNTY.

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

If probate proceedings involving the same estate are commenced in more than one county, each proceeding commenced in a county other than the county in which a proceeding was first commenced is stayed until the court in which the proceeding was first commenced makes a final determination of venue.

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

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