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The Dallas County Probate Courts' guidelines for muniment-of-title applications (signed Apr. 6, 2009, effective immediately): because MERP may hold a claim against the estate of a decedent who received Medicaid benefits after March 1, 2005, the will cannot be probated as a muniment of title until all estate debts are satisfied — the Proof of Death and Other Facts must include the prescribed sworn no-Medicaid statement, reflected in the order admitting the will.
Texas > Dallas County > all three Statutory Probate Courts — muniment-of-title applications; the guideline is the operational layer beneath Local Rule 5.07's Medicaid-statement requirements (the local rules composed separately)
PREMISE: Texas has not adopted a Medicaid-lien approach to Medicaid recovery — "if a decedent applied for and received Medicaid benefits after March 1, 2005, the State-run Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP) may have a claim for Medicaid recovery and a potential debt against decedent's estate. Consequently, decedent's last will cannot be probated as a Muniment of Title until all debts against the estate are satisfied." REQUIRED STATEMENT: "To assist the Probate Courts in making a finding that there are no debts against decedent's estate, the form for Proof of Death and Other Facts must include the following sworn statement: 'The Decedent did not apply for and receive Medicaid benefits on or after March 1, 2005.'" ORDER LANGUAGE: "Additionally, this finding should be reflected in the Court's Order admitting decedent's will as a Muniment of Title."
Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed by vision (image-only scan rendered and read 2026-08-28; custody sha in the crawl ledger); signed by the 2009-era bench (Judges DeShazo, Price, and Miller) — recorded historically; the guideline remains posted in the courts' general-orders library and its sworn-statement requirement is carried forward by Local Rule 5.07.
17 verbatim requirements extracted from 4243-01__2021-05.pdf, across 4 topics.
Judge Eckley-Moulder's courtroom policies (court starts 9:30 sharp): at the Final Pre-Trial, all trial counsel and the defendant must be physically present, phones silenced, and no recording without media clearance.