Tex. Est. Code § 253.002 · Chapter 253. CHANGE AND REVOCATION OF WILLS
REVOCATION OF WILL.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A written will, or a clause or devise in a written will, may not be revoked, except by a subsequent will, codicil, or declaration in writing that is executed with like formalities, or by the testator destroying or canceling the same, or causing it to be destroyed or canceled in the testator's presence.
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.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.253.htm
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- sha256 4617ea061386e5afdf0b247d3c552431f370afbe49c62dddc86ac9934be095b5
- Composed by
- 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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