Tex. Est. Code § 255.053 · Subchapter B. SUCCESSION BY PRETERMITTED CHILD
SUCCESSION BY PRETERMITTED CHILD IF TESTATOR HAS LIVING CHILD AT WILL'S EXECUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If no provision is made in the testator's last will for any child of the testator who is living when the testator executes the will, a pretermitted child succeeds to the portion of the testator's separate and community estate, other than any portion of the estate devised to the pretermitted child's other parent, to which the pretermitted child would have been entitled under Section 201.001 if the testator had died intestate without a surviving spouse, except as limited by Section 255.056.
(b) If a provision, whether vested or contingent, is made in the testator's last will for one or more children of the testator who are living when the testator executes the will, a pretermitted child is entitled only to a portion of the disposition made to children under the will that is equal to the portion the child would have received if the testator had:
(1) included all of the testator's pretermitted children with the children on whom benefits were conferred under the will; and
(2) given an equal share of those benefits to each child.
(c) To the extent feasible, the interest in the testator's estate to which the pretermitted child is entitled under Subsection (b) must be of the same character, whether an equitable or legal life estate or in fee, as the interest that the testator conferred on the testator's children under the will.
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.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1338 (S.B. 1198), Sec. 2.27, eff. January 1, 2014.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.255.htm
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Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 255.052APPLICABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION.Printed as Sections 255.053 and 255.054
- Tex. Est. Code § 255.055RATABLE RECOVERY BY PRETERMITTED CHILD FROM PORTIONS PASSING TO OTHER BENEFICIARIES.Printed as Section 255.053(b) | Sections 255.053(a) and 255.054
- Tex. Est. Code § 255.056LIMITATION ON REDUCTION OF ESTATE PASSING TO SURVIVING SPOUSE.Printed as Section 255.053(a) or 255.054
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