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Texas Probate Code - Chapter VI Special Types Of Administration

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  • Texas Probate Code Section 131A - Appointment Of Temporary Administrators
    (a) If a county judge determines that the interest of a decedent's estate requires the immediate appointment of a personal representative, he shall, by written ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 132 - Temporary Administration Pending Contest Of A Will Or Administration
    (a) Appointment of Temporary Administrator. Pending a contest relative to the probate of a will or the granting of letters of administration, the court may ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 133 - Powers Of Temporary Administrators
    Temporary administrators shall have and exercise only such rights and powers as are specifically expressed in the order of the court appointing them, and as ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 134 - Accounting
    At the expiration of a temporary appointment, the appointee shall file with the clerk of the court a sworn list of all property of the ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 135 - Closing Temporary Administration
    The list, return, exhibit, and account so filed shall be acted upon by the court and, whenever temporary letters shall expire or cease to be ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 137 - Collection Of Small Estates Upon Affidavit
    (a) The distributees of the estate of a decedent who dies intestate shall be entitled thereto, to the extent that the assets, exclusive of homestead ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 138 - Effect Of Affidavit
    The person making payment, delivery, transfer or issuance pursuant to the affidavit described in the preceding Section shall be released to the same extent as ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 139 - Application For Order Of No Administration
    If the value of the entire assets of an estate, not including homestead and exempt property, does not exceed the amount to which the surviving ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 140 - Hearing And Order Upon The Application
    Upon the filing of an application for no administration such as that provided for in the preceding Section, the court may hear the same forthwith ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 141 - Effect Of Order
    The order that no administration be had on the estate shall constitute sufficient legal authority to all persons owing any money, having custody of any ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 142 - Proceeding To Revoke Order
    At any time within one year after the entry of an order of no administration, and not thereafter, any interested person may file an application ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 143 - Summary Proceedings For Small Estates After Personal Representative Appointed
    Whenever, after the inventory, appraisement, and list of claims has been filed by a personal representative, it is established that the estate of a decedent, ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 145 - Independent Administration
    (a) Independent administration of an estate may be created as provided in Subsections (b) through (e) of this section. (b) Any person capable of making ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 146 - Payment Of Claims And Delivery Of Exemptions And Allowances
    (a) Duty of the Independent Executor. An independent executor, in the administration of an estate, independently of and without application to, or any action in ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 147 - Enforcement Of Claims By Suit
    Any person having a debt or claim against the estate may enforce the payment of the same by suit against the independent executor; and, when ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 148 - Requiring Heirs To Give Bond
    When an independent administration is created and the order appointing an independent executor is entered by the county court, any person having a debt against ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149 - Requiring Independent Executor To Give Bond
    When it has been provided by will, regularly probated, that an independent executor appointed by such will shall not be required to give bond for ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149A - Accounting
    (a) Interested Person May Demand Accounting. At any time after the expiration of fifteen months from the date that an independent administration was created and ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149B - Accounting And Distribution
    (a) In addition to or in lieu of the right to an accounting provided by Section 149A of this code, at any time after the ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149C - Removal Of Independent Executor
    (a) The county court, as that term is defined by Section 3 of this code, on its own motion or on motion of any interested ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149D - Distribution Of Remaining Estate Pending Judicial Discharge
    (a) On or before filing an action under Section 149E of this code, the independent executor must distribute to the beneficiaries of the estate any ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149E - Judicial Discharge Of Independent Executor
    (a) After an estate has been administered and if there is no further need for an independent administration of the estate, the independent executor of ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149F - Court Costs And Other Charges Related To Final Account In Judicial Discharge
    (a) Except as ordered by the court, the independent executor is entitled to pay from the estate legal fees, expenses, or other costs of a ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 149G - Rights And Remedies Cumulative
    The rights and remedies conferred by Sections 149D, 149E, and 149F of this code are cumulative of other rights and remedies to which a person ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 150 - Partition And Distribution Or Sale Of Property Incapable Of Division
    If the will does not distribute the entire estate of the testator, or provide a means for partition of said estate, or if no will ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 151 - Closing Independent Administration By Affidavit
    (a) Filing of Affidavit. When all of the debts known to exist against the estate have been paid, or when they have been paid so ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 152 - Closing Independent Administration Upon Application By Distributee
    (a) At any time after an estate has been fully administered and there is no further need for an independent administration of such estate, any ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 153 - Issuance Of Letters
    At any time before the authority of an independent executor has been terminated in the manner set forth in the preceding Sections, the clerk shall ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 154 - Powers Of An Administrator Who Succeeds An Independent Executor
    (a) Grant of Powers by Court. Whenever a person has died, or shall die, testate, owning property in Texas, and such person's will has been ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 154A - Court-Appointed Successor Independent Executor
    (a) If the will of a person who dies testate names an independent executor who, having qualified, fails for any reason to continue to serve, ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 155 - Administration Of Community Property
    When a husband or wife dies intestate and the community property passes to the survivor, no administration thereon, community or otherwise, shall be necessary. Acts ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 156 - Liability Of Community Property For Debts
    The community property subject to the sole or joint management, control, and disposition of a spouse during marriage continues to be subject to the liabilities ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 160 - Powers Of Surviving Spouse When No Administration Is Pending
    (a) When no one has qualified as executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased spouse, the surviving spouse, whether the husband or wife, ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 161 - Community Administration
    Whenever an interest in community property passes to someone other than the surviving spouse, the surviving spouse may qualify as community administrator in the manner ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 162 - Application For Community Administration
    A surviving spouse who desires to qualify as a community administrator shall, within four years after the death of the other spouse, file a written ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 163 - Appointment Of Appraisers
    If the appointment of appraisers is requested by the applicant, or by any interested person, the judge shall, without notice or citation, enter an order ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 164 - Inventory, Appraisement, And List Of Claims
    The surviving spouse, with the assistance of the appraisers, if any be appointed, shall make out a full, fair, and complete inventory, appraisement, and list ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 165 - Bond Of Community Administrator
    The community administrator shall at the time the inventory, appraisement, and list of claims are returned, present to the court a bond with two or ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 166 - Order Of The Court
    When such inventory, appraisement, list of claims, and bond are returned to the judge, he shall examine the same and approve or disapprove them by ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 167 - Powers Of Community Administrator
    When the order mentioned in the preceding section has been entered, the survivor, without any further action in the court, shall have the power to ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 168 - Accounting By Survivor
    The survivor, whether qualified as community administrator or not, shall keep a fair and full account and statement of all community debts and expenses paid ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 169 - Payment Of Debts
    The community administrator shall pay all just and legal community debts within the time, and according to the classification, and in the order prescribed for ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 170 - New Appraisement Or New Bond
    Any person interested in a community estate may cause a new appraisement to be made of the same, or may cause a new bond to ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 171 - Creditor May Require Exhibit
    Any creditor of the community estate whose claim has not been paid in full, after the lapse of one year from the filing of the ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 172 - Action Of Court Upon Exhibit
    When such exhibit has been returned to the court and filed, the court shall examine the same and hear exceptions and objections thereto, and evidence ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 173 - Approval Of Exhibit
    If, after examining the exhibit and after receiving evidence in support of or against the same, the court is satisfied that the estate has been ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 174 - Failure To File Exhibit
    Should the survivor, after being duly cited, fail to file an exhibit as required, the court shall proceed as if the creditor's right to the ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 175 - Termination Of Community Administration
    After the lapse of twelve months from the filing of the bond of the survivor, the community administration may be terminated whenever termination is desired ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 176 - Remarriage Of Surviving Spouse
    The remarriage of a surviving spouse shall not terminate the surviving spouse's powers or liabilities as a qualified community administrator or administratrix; nor shall it ...
  • Texas Probate Code Section 177 - Distribution Of Powers Among Personal Representatives And Surviving Spouse
    (a) When Community Administrator Has Qualified. The qualified community administrator is entitled to administer the entire community estate, including the part which was by law ...
  • Last modified: August 10, 2007