Tex. Est. Code § 51.203 · Subchapter E. ADDITIONAL NOTICE PROVISIONS
SERVICE OF NOTICE OF INTENTION TO TAKE DEPOSITIONS IN CERTAIN MATTERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a will is to be probated, or in another probate matter in which there is no opposing party or attorney of record on whom to serve notice and copies of interrogatories, service may be made by posting notice of the intention to take depositions for a period of 10 days as provided by Section 51.053 governing a posting of notice.
(b) When notice by posting under Subsection (a) is filed with the county clerk, a copy of the interrogatories must also be filed.
(c) At the expiration of the 10-day period prescribed by Subsection (a):
(1) the depositions for which the notice was posted may be taken; and
(2) the judge may file cross-interrogatories if no person appears.
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 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1136 (H.B. 2912), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2014.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.51.htm
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Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 54.051APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 112.103METHOD OF PROOF OF SIGNATURES.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 202.151EVIDENCE IN PROCEEDING TO DECLARE HEIRSHIP.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 256.153PROOF OF EXECUTION OF ATTESTED WILL.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 256.154PROOF OF EXECUTION OF HOLOGRAPHIC WILL.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 256.155PROCEDURES FOR DEPOSITIONS WHEN NO CONTEST IS FILED.Printed as Section 51.203
- Tex. Est. Code § 301.155AUTHORIZED METHODS OF PROOF.Printed as Section 51.203
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