Tex. Est. Code § 151.004 · Chapter 151. EXAMINATION OF DOCUMENTS AND SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
DELIVERY OF DOCUMENT WITHOUT COURT ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Subject to Subsection (c), a person who permits an examination of a decedent's document or safe deposit box under Section 151.003 may deliver:
(1) a document appearing to be the decedent's will to:
(A) the clerk of a court that:
(i) has probate jurisdiction; and
(ii) is located in the county in which the decedent resided; or
(B) a person named in the document as an executor of the decedent's estate;
(2) a document appearing to be a deed to a burial plot in which the decedent is to be buried, or appearing to give burial instructions, to the person conducting the examination; or
(3) a document appearing to be an insurance policy on the decedent's life to a beneficiary named in the policy.
(b) A person who has leased a safe deposit box to the decedent shall keep a copy of a document delivered by the person under Subsection (a)(1) until the fourth anniversary of the date of delivery.
(c) A person may not deliver a document under Subsection (a) unless the person examining the document:
(1) requests delivery of the document; and
(2) issues a receipt for the document to the person delivering the document.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.151.htm
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