Tex. Est. Code § 361.002 · Subchapter A. RESIGNATION OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR; DISCHARGE AND RELEASE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the necessity exists, the court may immediately accept the resignation of a personal representative and appoint a successor representative.
(b) The court may not discharge a person whose resignation is accepted under Subsection (a), or release the person or the sureties on the person's bond, until a final order has been issued or judgment has been rendered on the final account required under Section 361.001.
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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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.361.htm
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