Tex. Gov't Code § 25.2652 · Subchapter E. MULTICOUNTY STATUTORY PROBATE COURTS
JUDGE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The judge is elected by the qualified voters of the counties at the election at which other statutory probate court judges are elected.
(b) The judge must be:
(1) at least 25 years of age;
(2) a resident of one of the counties; and
(3) a licensed attorney in this state who has practiced law or served as a judge of a court in this state, or both combined, for the four years preceding election or appointment.
(c) The judge is entitled to be paid an annual salary set by a vote of a majority of the total number of the county judges and commissioners of the commissioners courts of the counties. The salary shall be apportioned among the counties according to the ratio a county's population bears to the total population of the counties composing the court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 409, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.25.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 8149b9b73c7491567bed576b90cfd81093201176e24074ea48064fbf7875a373
- 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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