Tex. Est. Code § 52.052 · Subchapter B. FILES; INDEX
CASE FILES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The county clerk shall maintain a case file for the estate of each decedent for which a probate proceeding has been filed.
(b) Each case file must contain each order, judgment, and proceeding of the court and any other probate filing with the court, including each:
(1) application for the probate of a will;
(2) application for the granting of administration;
(3) citation and notice, whether published or posted, including the return on the citation or notice;
(4) will and the testimony on which the will is admitted to probate;
(5) bond and official oath;
(6) inventory, appraisement, and list of claims;
(6-a) affidavit in lieu of the inventory, appraisement, and list of claims;
(7) exhibit and account;
(8) report of renting;
(9) application for sale or partition of real estate;
(10) report of sale;
(11) report of the commissioners of partition;
(12) application for authority to execute a lease for mineral development, or for pooling or unitization of lands, royalty, or other interest in minerals, or to lend or invest money; and
(13) report of lending or investing money.
(c) Only the substance of a deposition must be recorded under Subsection (b)(4).
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 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1338 (S.B. 1198), Sec. 2.05, 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.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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