Tex. Est. Code § 304.002 · Chapter 304. PERSONS WHO MAY SERVE AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES
RENOUNCING RIGHT TO SERVE AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A decedent's surviving spouse, or, if there is no surviving spouse, the heirs or any one of the heirs of the decedent to the exclusion of any person not equally entitled to letters testamentary or of administration, may renounce the right to the letters in favor of another qualified person in open court or by a power of attorney authenticated and filed with the county clerk of the county where the application for the letters is filed. After the right to the letters has been renounced, the court may grant the letters to the other qualified person.
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.304.htm
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