Tex. Est. Code § 52.002 · Subchapter A. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS
CLAIM DOCKET.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The county clerk shall maintain a record book titled "Claim Docket" and shall record in the book each claim that is presented against an estate for the court's approval.
(b) The county clerk shall assign one or more pages of the record book to each estate.
(c) The claim docket must be ruled in 16 columns at proper intervals from top to bottom, with a short note of the contents at the top of each column. The county clerk shall record for each claim, in the order claims are filed, the following information in the respective columns, beginning with the first or marginal column:
(1) the name of the claimant;
(2) the amount of the claim;
(3) the date of the claim;
(4) the date the claim is filed;
(5) the date the claim is due;
(6) the date the claim begins bearing interest;
(7) the interest rate;
(8) the date the claim is allowed by the executor or administrator, if applicable;
(9) the amount allowed by the executor or administrator, if applicable;
(10) the date the claim is rejected, if applicable;
(11) the date the claim is approved, if applicable;
(12) the amount approved for the claim, if applicable;
(13) the date the claim is disapproved, if applicable;
(14) the class to which the claim belongs;
(15) the date the claim is established by a judgment of a court, if applicable; and
(16) the amount of the judgment established under Subdivision (15), if applicable.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, 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.52.htm
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- 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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