Tex. Est. Code § 33.052 · Subchapter B. DETERMINATION OF VENUE
CONCURRENT VENUE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If applications for probate proceedings involving the same estate are filed in two or more courts having concurrent venue, the court in which a proceeding involving the estate was first commenced has and retains jurisdiction of the proceeding to the exclusion of the other court or courts in which a proceeding involving the same estate was commenced.
(b) The first commenced probate proceeding extends to all of the decedent's property, including the decedent's estate property.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1338 (S.B. 1198), Sec. 2.04, 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.33.htm
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