Tex. Est. Code § 101.002 · Subchapter A. PASSAGE AND POSSESSION OF DECEDENT'S ESTATE ON DEATH
EFFECT OF JOINT OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If two or more persons hold an interest in property jointly and one joint owner dies before severance, the interest of the decedent in the joint estate:
(1) does not survive to the remaining joint owner or owners; and
(2) passes by will or intestacy from the decedent as if the decedent's interest had been severed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.101.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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