Tex. Est. Code § 123.002 · Subchapter A. EFFECT OF DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE ON WILL

TREATMENT OF DECEDENT'S FORMER SPOUSE.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

A person is not a surviving spouse of a decedent if the person's marriage to the decedent has been dissolved by divorce, annulment, or a declaration that the marriage is void, unless:

(1) as the result of a subsequent marriage, the person is married to the decedent at the time of death; and

(2) the subsequent marriage is not declared void under Subchapter C.

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.123.htm
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