Tex. Est. Code § 51.056 · Subchapter B. METHODS OF SERVING CITATION OR NOTICE; PERSONS TO BE SERVED
SERVICE ON PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OR RECEIVER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Unless this title expressly provides for another method of service, the county clerk who issues a citation or notice required to be served on a personal representative or receiver shall serve the citation or notice by sending the original citation or notice by a qualified delivery method to:
(1) the representative's or receiver's attorney of record; or
(2) the representative or receiver, if the representative or receiver does not have an attorney of record.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 205 (S.B. 1373), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.51.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 e7bf37f9b8c37a10d6831bbbfd7db10a73c4aecc308daf503d1327950bfd29de
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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