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An administrative order of the Travis County Probate Court regarding the filing of copies of wills following the probate of an original will, governing how such copies are filed.
Applies to the filing of copies of wills in the Travis County Probate Court. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
C-1-PB-23-000001 [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, 2023 OCT -2 PM 2:58, DYANA LIMON-MERCADO, COUNTY CLERK, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS] Administrative Order 2023-12 § In the Probate Court Number Two, Travis County, Texas Administrative Order Regarding the Filing of Copies of Wills following the Texas Supreme Court's Adoption of Mandatory E-Filing On December 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of Texas adopted new Texas Rule of Civil Procedure (TRCP) 21(f) regarding Electronic Filing, effective January 1, 2014. Rule 21(f)(4)(A) provides: "Wills are not required to be filed electronically." Rule 21(f)(12) provides: "Original Wills. When a party electronically files an application to probate a document as an original will, the original will must be filed with the clerk within three business days after the application is filed." Travis County Probate Court No. 2 finds there is need for an administrative order requiring that any copies of wills that are offered for probate (or filed and not offered for probate) must be physically filed in the Clerk's office within three business days after the application is electronically filed. Having the actual document that is being offered as the will copy helps the Court properly evaluate the document. It is therefore ordered that, effective immediately, when a party electronically files an application that either (1) seeks to probate a copy of a will or (2) states that a copy of a will is not being offered for probate, the will copy must be filed with the clerk within three business days after the application is filed. Signed on October 2, 2023. [signature] Nicholas Chu, Presiding Judge [Page 1 of 1]
C-1-PB-23-000001 [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, 2023 OCT -2 PM 2:58, DYANA LIMON-MERCADO, COUNTY CLERK, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS] Administrative Order 2023-12 § In the Probate Court Number Two, Travis County, Texas Administrative Order Regarding the Filing of Copies of Wills following the Texas Supreme Court's Adoption of Mandatory E-Filing On December 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of Texas adopted new
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan at a summary level, faithful to the order's title and type (image-only). Bound to Travis County (probate). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 30cdcdc0370f..., 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]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.