§ 15. CASE FILES. The county clerk shall maintain a case file for each decedent's estate in which a probate proceeding has been filed. The case file must contain all orders, judgments, and proceedings of the court and any other probate filing with the court, including all: (1) applications for the probate of wills and for the granting of administration; (2) citations and notices, whether published or posted, with the returns thereon; (3) wills and the testimony upon which the same are admitted to probate, provided that the substance only of depositions shall be recorded; (4) bonds and official oaths; (5) inventories, appraisements, and lists of claims; (6) exhibits and accounts; (7) reports of hiring, renting, or sale; (8) applications for sale or partition of real estate and reports of sale and of commissioners of partition; (9) applications for authority to execute leases for mineral development, or for pooling or unitization of lands, royalty, or other interest in minerals, or to lend or invest money; and (10) reports of lending or investing money. Acts 1955, 54th Leg., p. 88, ch. 55, eff. Jan. 1, 1956. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 957, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 67, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

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