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

Tex. Estates Code § 52.001: PROBATE DOCKET.

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  1. ESTATES CODE
  2. TITLE 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY
  3. SUBTITLE B. PROCEDURAL MATTERS
  4. CHAPTER 52. FILING AND RECORDKEEPING
  5. SUBCHAPTER A. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS

(a) The county clerk shall maintain a record book titled "Judge's Probate Docket" and shall record in the book:

(1) the name of each person with respect to whom, or with respect to whose estate, proceedings are commenced or sought to be commenced;

(2) the name of each executor, administrator, or applicant for letters testamentary or of administration;

(3) the date each original application for probate proceedings is filed;

(4) a notation of each order, judgment, decree, and proceeding that occurs in each estate, including the date it occurs; and

(5) the docket number of each estate as assigned under Subsection (b).

(b) The county clerk shall assign a docket number to each estate in the order proceedings are commenced.

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

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 8.001, eff. January 1, 2014.

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