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Administrative order of the Tom Green County Courts at Law: pro se small estate affidavits under Estates Code chapter 205 filed after August 1, 2017 are accepted only on the court-approved form posted on the County Clerk's civil/guardianship/probate webpage; affidavits filed by attorneys are excepted.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Tom Green County > County Court at Law, County Court at Law No. 2.
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER § COUNTY COURTS AT LAW § OF 2017-1 § TOM GREEN COUNTY, TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER REQUIRING THE USE OF THE COURT’S APPROVED FORM FOR PRO SE SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVITS On this day, the County Courts at Law find that there is a need for an administrative order regarding the form to be used when a Small Estate Affidavit (SEA) is filed in Tom Green County under Texas Estates Code Chapter 205. The Courts find that many of the Pro Se SEAs filed in Tom Green County do not provide all of the information the Code and Court require. While approval of SEAs is within the Court’s discretion (Estates Code §205.003), it wastes the time and resources of the Applicant, County Clerk, and the Courts for the Court to evaluate incomplete affidavits. The Court has created an SEA that, if completely and accurately filled out, includes all information necessary to enable the Court to determine whether the Court should approve the SEA. This SEA form is posted in the Tom Green County Courts at Law webpage. It is therefore ORDERED that the Tom Green County Courts at Law will not accept any Pro Se SEAs filed after August 1, 2017 unless they are submitted using the approved form posted on the Tom Green County Clerk’s, Civil/Guardianship/Probate webpage. (SEAs filed by an attorney are an exception to this order) SIGNED on 7-28-17 [signature] BEN NOLEN, JUDGE PRESIDING TOM GREEN COUNTY COURT AT LAW [signature] PENNY ROBERTS, JUDGE PRESIDING TOM GREEN COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER § COUNTY COURTS AT LAW § OF 2017-1 § TOM GREEN COUNTY, TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER REQUIRING THE USE OF THE COURT’S APPROVED FORM FOR PRO SE SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVITS On this day, the County Courts at Law find that there is a need for an administrative order regarding the form to be used when a Small Estate Affidavit (SEA) is filed in Tom Green County under Texas Estates Code C
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/be7205a6c4b0255e-small-estate-administrative-order-pdf.pdf (61,926 bytes, sha256 be7205a6c4b0255e3f6638e632fcd0a47a6ae7fa232fa1c001d9168d4f4cded4; 1 page(s)) - the document the Tom Green County website posts (https://www.tomgreencountytx.gov/upload/page/0061/docs/SMALLESTATEADMINISTRATIVEORDER082017.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: Ben Nolen (County Court at Law) and Penny Roberts (County Court at Law No. 2), July 28, 2017.
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