{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-255.351","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Estates Code § 255.351","heading":"EXERCISE OF POWER OF APPOINTMENT THROUGH WILL.","body":"A testator may not exercise a power of appointment through a residuary clause in the testator's will or through a will providing for general disposition of all of the testator's property unless:\n(1) the testator makes a specific reference to the power in the will; or\n(2) there is some other indication in writing that the testator intended to include the property subject to the power in the will.\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 F. WILLS","CHAPTER 255. CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF WILLS","SUBCHAPTER H. EXERCISE OF POWER OF APPOINTMENT THROUGH WILL"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.255.htm#255.351","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:08Z","sha256":"249ac1f1a83aa6201bbd35255998a4d46cffe7f00ae3846ca4b6e0a554abcd56","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-255.304","next":"us-tx/tex.-estates-code-255.401"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}