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Administrative Order PC-2020-1 — Use of the Court's Approved Form for Small Estate Affidavits (Harris County Probate Courts) — posted on the court's own website — the court-procedure tier (standing procedures, policies, and preferences the court itself publishes), distinct from the TOPICs-registered local-rules tier (TRCP 3a registration applies to local rules). Operative requirements quoted verbatim; the posted document is the controlling text.
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Administrative Order PC-2020-1, In the Probate Courts of Harris County, Texas — Administrative Order Regarding the Use of the Court's Approved Form for Small Estate Affidavits. The Probate Courts find that many of the Small Estate Affidavits filed in Harris County do not provide all of the information the Code and the Courts require. While approval of a Small Estate Affidavit is within each Court's discretion (see Estates Code §205.003), it wastes the resources of both the Probate Courts and the applicants for the Probate Courts to evaluate incomplete affidavits. The revised Small Estate Affidavit adds the requirement of an email for each distributee as well as a signature line and contact information for an attorney who chooses to file the Small Estate Affidavit Form that is on the Harris County Probate Clerk's website that — if completely and correctly filled out — includes all the information necessary to enable each Probate Court to determine whether it should approve a Small Estate Affidavit. This new Small Estate Affidavit form is now posted on the Harris County Probate Clerk's website and each Probate Court's website. Signed on October 8, 2020 [Judges Simoneaux, Newman, Cox, Horwitz].
Reviewer note: Own-site document live-fetched by us 2026-08-22, byte-identical to the AJR-11 recon capture of 2026-08-21 (dual custody). Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the posted scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; no usable embedded text layer); the posted document (sha256 f2b1ea549f66…) is the controlling text.
18 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.