{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-151.004","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Estates Code § 151.004","heading":"DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT WITHOUT COURT ORDER.","body":"(a) Subject to Subsection (c), a person who permits an examination of a decedent's document or safe deposit box under Section 151.003 may deliver:\n(1) a document appearing to be the decedent's will to:\n(A) the clerk of a court that:\n(i) has probate jurisdiction; and\n(ii) is located in the county in which the decedent resided; or\n(B) a person named in the document as an executor of the decedent's estate;\n(2) a document appearing to be a deed to a burial plot in which the decedent is to be buried, or appearing to give burial instructions, to the person conducting the examination; or\n(3) a document appearing to be an insurance policy on the decedent's life to a beneficiary named in the policy.\n(b) A person who has leased a safe deposit box to the decedent shall keep a copy of a document delivered by the person under Subsection (a)(1) until the fourth anniversary of the date of delivery.\n(c) A person may not deliver a document under Subsection (a) unless the person examining the document:\n(1) requests delivery of the document; and\n(2) issues a receipt for the document to the person delivering the document.\nAdded by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.","path":["ESTATES CODE","TITLE 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY","SUBTITLE D. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE","CHAPTER 151. EXAMINATION OF DOCUMENTS AND SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.151.htm#151.004","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:08Z","sha256":"b4d13b6e70db011672a6c58a57bafdfcc225cd4439ffeae24e26f5f62b891da1","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-151.003","next":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-151.005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}