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Administrative order of County Court at Law No. 2 for lost wills: findings on Estates Code § 256.054 (contents of the application), § 258.002 (citation to all parties interested in the estate, which includes both the devisees of the lost will and those who would inherit if it were not admitted) and § 51.151 (explicit notice of the right to object); where a full or partial intestacy would result, the court appoints an attorney ad litem under § 53.104 (not needed where a valid original codicil republishes the lost will) - the applicant e-files the court's order appointing attorney ad litem, does not select the ad litem, and sends the ad litem the order, the application and any copy of the will; the Clerk attaches the court's 'Notice of Application to Probate Copy of Lost Will or Codicil or Lost Will or Codicil without a Copy' to each § 258.002 citation; devisees and heirs (or, for a lost codicil, the beneficiaries of the original will) are personally served or execute an affidavit waiving citation that itself states every point of the notice. The notice and a sample affidavit are attached.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hunt County > County Court at Law No. 2. Applies when an application is filed to probate a copy of a lost will or codicil, or a lost will or codicil without a copy, 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 COPY OF A LOST WILL OR A LOST WILL WITHOUT A COPY This Court finds that there is need for an administrative order regarding notice to interested parties when an application is filed to probate a copy of a lost will or codicil, or to
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1146.pdf (application/pdf, 258090 bytes, sha256 62f1b7c1f1be4dc19e33d267e0a7a3a0dade634b67a6d82cbf9970487d377263; 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 individuals who would inherit by if the copy of the lost will were not admitted' (finding 2), 'Application for Probate a Copy of a Will' (sample affidavit). [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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