Tex. Est. Code § 111.052 · Subchapter B. OTHER PROVISIONS FOR PAYMENT OR TRANSFER OF CERTAIN ASSETS ON DEATH
VALIDITY OF CERTAIN NONTESTAMENTARY INSTRUMENTS AND PROVISIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This code does not invalidate:
(1) any provision in an insurance policy, employment contract, bond, mortgage, promissory note, deposit agreement, employees' trust, retirement account, deferred compensation arrangement, custodial agreement, pension plan, trust agreement, conveyance of property, security, account with a financial institution, mutual fund account, or any other written instrument effective as a contract, gift, conveyance, or trust, stating that:
(A) money or other benefits under the instrument due to or controlled or owned by a decedent shall be paid after the decedent's death, or property that is the subject of the instrument shall pass, to a person designated by the decedent in the instrument or in a separate writing, including a will, executed at the same time as the instrument or subsequently; or
(B) money due or to become due under the instrument shall cease to be payable if the promisee or promissor dies before payment or demand; or
(2) an instrument described by Subdivision (1).
(b) A provision described by Subsection (a)(1) is considered nontestamentary.
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
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.111.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Est. Code § 111.052. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 114.057REVOCATION BY CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS; EFFECT OF WILL OR MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION.Printed as Section 111.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 114.103EFFECT OF TRANSFER ON DEATH DEED AT TRANSFEROR'S DEATH.Printed as Section 111.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 115.005EFFECT OF BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION AT OWNER'S OR LAST SURVIVING OWNER'S DEATH.Printed as Section 111.052
- Tex. Est. Code § 116.006EFFECT OF BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION AT OWNER'S OR LAST SURVIVING OWNER'S DEATH.Printed as Section 111.052
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