Tex. Prop. Code § 65.003 · Chapter 65. AUTHORITY OF CO-OWNER TO ENCUMBER RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The occupying co-owner may establish the authority to act as an agent and attorney-in-fact for another co-owner by filing in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the real property is located:
(1) an affidavit of the occupying co-owner affirming the facts described by Sections 65.002(1)-(3);
(2) the affidavits of two additional affiants personally familiar with the co-owner's occupancy of the real property corroborating the occupancy during the preceding five years; and
(3) a certificate of the tax assessor-collector for the county in which the real property is located affirming that the co-owner has paid all taxes assessed against the real property for the preceding five years without delinquency.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 918 (S.B. 1368), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.
Redesignated from Property Code, Chapter 64 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 161 (S.B. 1093), Sec. 22.001(39), eff. September 1, 2013.
Redesignated and amended from Property Code, Section 64.003 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 161 (S.B. 1093), Sec. 22.002(30), eff. September 1, 2013.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.65.htm
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