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Where personal service of citation or notice is required or requested on an individual who is in Texas in a decedent's estate, service must be made by the sheriff or constable unless a statute specifically provides otherwise — clarifying Estates Code § 51.051(b) (service by sheriff or constable when the person has no attorney of record or service on the attorney fails, absent non-residence or court-ordered substituted service under TRCP 106(b)).
Applies to personal service of citation or notice in decedents' estates in Bexar County Probate Court No. 2 (Judge Veronica Vasquez, the sole signer of the registered copy). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NUMBER 2021-01. IN RE: ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2021-01 — IN THE PROBATE COURT, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON PERSONAL SERVICE IN ESTATES OF DECEDENTS UNDER TITLE 2, SUBTITLE B, SECTION 51.051(b) OF THE TEXAS ESTATES CODE The probate courts find there is a need to clarify the means by which personal service of citation or notice is accomplished in estates of dec
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (one page; OCR text layer read in full — the caption and signature month are partly garbled by a filing stamp; the day of signing is illegible). The registered copy is signed by Judge Vasquez alone, so the rule is court- and judge-joined to Probate Court No. 2 although the recitals speak of "the probate courts".
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.
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