Administrative order of the County Court of Moore County: small estate affidavits under Estates Code chapter 205 filed with the County Clerk after August 30, 2024 must use the court's approved small estate affidavit form (or a later posted modification of it), posted on the probate page of the court's website, because incomplete affidavits waste the resources of the court and the applicants.
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2024-1 Administrative Order IN THE COUNTY COURT OF MOORE COUNTY, TEXAS Administrative Order Requiring the Use of the Court's Approved Form for Small Estate Affidavits On this day, the Court finds there is need for an administrative order regarding the form to be used when a Small Estate Affidavit is filed with the County Clerk in Moore County under Texas Estates Code Chapter 205. The Court fi
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-9 Ninth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr9 corpus sources/documents/36724fdb0e63c094-administrative-order-requiring-the-use-of-the-court-s-approved-form-fo.pdf (49,868 bytes, sha256 36724fdb0e63c094c0b4102bda4d0751e5a7723b923d85ff8b72d58808a5e822; 1 page(s)) - the document the Moore County website posts (https://www.co.moore.tx.us/upload/page/4499/administrative_order_requiring_the_use_of_the_courts_approved_for_for_small_estate_affidavits.pdf), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Rowdy Rhoades, Presiding Judge, August 30, 2024. Printed wording kept as printed ("Small Affidavit Form"; "shall be required to posting notice").
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6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.
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