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An administrative order of the Travis County Probate Court requiring the use of the Court's approved form for Small Estate Affidavits filed under Chapter 205 of the Texas Estates Code.
Applies to Small Estate Affidavits filed in the Travis County Probate Court. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
C-1-PB-23-000001 Administrative Order 2023-8 § In the Probate Court Number Two, Travis 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 in Travis County Probate Court No. 2 under Texas Estates Code Chapter 205. The Court finds that over half of the Small Estate Affidavits filed in Travis County do not provide all of the information the Code and the Court require. While approval of a Small Estate Affidavit is within the Court's discretion (see Estates Code §205.003), it wastes the resources of both the Court and the applicants for the Court to evaluate incomplete affidavits. Therefore, the Court has created a Small Affidavit Form that – if completely and correctly filled out – includes all information necessary to enable the Court to determine whether the Court should approve a Small Estate Affidavit. This Small Estate Affidavit form is posted on the probate page of the Court's website. It is therefore ORDERED that the Travis County Probate Court No. 2 will not approve any Small Estate Affidavit unless it uses the approved form posted on the Court's website (or whatever modification of the approved form is posted in the future). Signed on October 2, 2023. [signature] Nicholas Chu, Presiding Judge [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, 2023 OCT -2 PM 2:57, DYANA LIMON-MERCADO, COUNTY CLERK, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS] [Page 1 of 1]
C-1-PB-23-000001 Administrative Order 2023-8 § In the Probate Court Number Two, Travis 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 in Travis County Probate Court No. 2 under Texas Estates Code C
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan at a summary level, faithful to the order's title and the identical Guadalupe small-estate order (doc 2557) read in full. Bound to Travis County (probate). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 8c4a063153a5..., 1 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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