Tex. Est. Code § 255.101 · Subchapter C. LIFETIME GIFTS AS SATISFACTION OF DEVISE
CERTAIN LIFETIME GIFTS CONSIDERED SATISFACTION OF DEVISE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Property that a testator gives to a person during the testator's lifetime is considered a satisfaction, either wholly or partly, of a devise to the person if:
(1) the testator's will provides for deduction of the lifetime gift from the devise;
(2) the testator declares in a contemporaneous writing that the lifetime gift is to be deducted from, or is in satisfaction of, the devise; or
(3) the devisee acknowledges in writing that the lifetime gift is in satisfaction of the devise.
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
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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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