Tex. Est. Code § 361.053 · Subchapter B. REMOVAL AND REINSTATEMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
REMOVAL ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An order removing a personal representative must:
(1) state the cause of the removal;
(2) require that, if the removed representative has been personally served with citation, any letters testamentary or of administration issued to the removed representative be surrendered, and that, regardless of whether the letters have been delivered, all the letters be canceled of record; and
(3) require the removed representative to deliver any estate property in the representative's possession to the persons entitled to the property or to the person who has been appointed and has qualified as successor representative.
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
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.361.htm
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