Tex. Est. Code § 101.001 · Subchapter A. PASSAGE AND POSSESSION OF DECEDENT'S ESTATE ON DEATH
PASSAGE OF ESTATE ON DECEDENT'S DEATH.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Subject to Section 101.051, if a person dies leaving a lawful will:
(1) all of the person's estate that is devised by the will vests immediately in the devisees;
(2) all powers of appointment granted in the will vest immediately in the donees of those powers; and
(3) all of the person's estate that is not devised by the will vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.
(b) Subject to Section 101.051, the estate of a person who dies intestate vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.101.htm
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