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Administrative order of County Court at Law No. 2 for late probate of a will: findings on the notice or waiver affidavits required by Estates Code §§ 258.051 and 258.053 (and on § 258.052, the attorney ad litem for heirs whose address cannot be ascertained); the court appoints an attorney ad litem under § 53.104 for unknown heirs, heirs whose whereabouts are unknown and heirs under a legal disability unless another will has already been admitted to probate - the applicant e-files the court's order appointing attorney ad litem on filing the application, does not select the ad litem, and sends the ad litem the order, the application and the will; the Clerk attaches the court's 'Notice of Application to Probate a Will More than Four Years after the Testator's Death' to every citation; every heir (or every beneficiary of a previously probated will) is personally served or delivers an affidavit waiving citation and stating no objection; a waiver affidavit must itself state every point of the notice - reference to an attached notice is not sufficient. The notice and a sample affidavit are attached.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hunt County > County Court at Law No. 2. Applies when an applicant seeks to probate a will more than four years after the testator's death (Estates Code § 256.003(a)), effective February 15, 2023.
COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2 IN AND FOR HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS JUDGE JOEL D. LITTLEFILED, COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER REGARDING APPLICATIONS TO PROBATE A WILL MORE THAN FOUR YEARS AFTER THE TESTATOR'S DEATH The undersigned presiding judge of County Court at Law No. 2 of Hunt County, Texas, finds there is need for an administrative order regarding applications to probate a will more t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1145.pdf (application/pdf, 244374 bytes, sha256 a0e40198a4dfd08b8e4ea85a2fdcb65e6d631dadac7132ca3e2af963ebd70022; 5 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Order, attached notice and sample affidavit are one five-page scan, read by eye and typed from the pages; the running footer is dropped. The PDF's OCR layer drops the underlined word 'not' in the attached notice; the page prints it. Four end-of-line spaces that the scan's justified setting collapsed ('to probate', 'lost will', 'this case', 'A COPY') are restored. The file stamp is faint: '23 JAN 25 AM 10:11 and a deputy's signature are legible. The letterhead prints the judge's name as 'JUDGE JOEL D. LITTLEFILED'; the signature block prints 'JOEL D. LITTLEFIELD, Presiding Judge'. Both are kept as printed. Printed as on the instrument: the attached notice's item 1 closes a parenthesis it never opens ('Or if this will is not admitted ... probated will.)'). [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Joel David Littlefield, the sitting judge of the County Court at Law No. 2 (Hunt County), who signed/issued this instrument.]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.
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