Tex. Est. Code § 301.201 · Subchapter E. PREVENTION OF ADMINISTRATION
METHOD OF PREVENTING ADMINISTRATION REQUESTED BY CREDITOR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a creditor files an application for letters of administration of an estate, another interested person who does not desire the administration can defeat the application by:
(1) paying the creditor's claim;
(2) proving to the court's satisfaction that the creditor's claim is fictitious, fraudulent, illegal, or barred by limitation; or
(3) executing a bond that is:
(A) payable to, and to be approved by, the judge in an amount that is twice the amount of the creditor's claim; and
(B) conditioned on the obligors paying the claim on the establishment of the claim by suit in any court in the county having jurisdiction of the amount.
(b) A bond executed and approved under Subsection (a)(3) must be filed with the county clerk.
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
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.301.htm
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