Tex. Est. Code § 255.054 · Subchapter B. SUCCESSION BY PRETERMITTED CHILD
SUCCESSION BY PRETERMITTED CHILD IF TESTATOR HAS NO LIVING CHILD AT WILL'S EXECUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
If a testator has no child living when the testator executes the testator's last 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.
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. 2.28, 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.255.htm
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- 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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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 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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