Texas Estates Code Title 2, Chapter 201 - Descent And Distribution

SUBCHAPTER A INTESTATE SUCCESSION

• Texas Section 201.001 - Estate Of An Intestate Not Leaving Spouse
  (a) If a person who dies intestate does not leave a spouse, the estate to which the person had title descends and passes in parcenary...
• Texas Section 201.002 - Separate Estate Of An Intestate
  (a) If a person who dies intestate leaves a surviving spouse, the estate, other than a community estate, to which the person had title descends...

SUBCHAPTER B MATTERS AFFECTING INHERITANCE

• Texas Section 201.003 - Community Estate Of An Intestate
  (a) If a person who dies intestate leaves a surviving spouse, the community estate of the deceased spouse passes as provided by this section. (b)...
• Texas Section 201.051 - Maternal Inheritance
  (a) For purposes of inheritance, a child is the child of the child's biological or adopted mother, and the child and the child's issue shall...
• Texas Section 201.052 - Paternal Inheritance
  (a) For purposes of inheritance, a child is the child of the child's biological father if: (1) the child is born under circumstances described by...
• Texas Section 201.053 - Effect Of Reliance On Affidavit Of Heirship
  (a) A person who purchases for valuable consideration any interest in property of the heirs of a decedent acquires good title to the interest that...
• Texas Section 201.054 - Adopted Child
  (a) For purposes of inheritance under the laws of descent and distribution, an adopted child is regarded as the child of the adoptive parent or...
• Texas Section 201.055 - Issue Of Void Or Voidable Marriage
  The issue of a marriage declared void or voided by annulment shall be treated in the same manner as the issue of a valid marriage....
• Texas Section 201.056 - Persons Not In Being
  No right of inheritance accrues to any person unless the person is born before, or is in gestation at, the time of the intestate's death...
• Texas Section 201.057 - Collateral Kindred Of Whole And Half Blood
  If the inheritance from an intestate passes to the collateral kindred of the intestate and part of the collateral kindred are of whole blood and...
• Texas Section 201.058 - Convicted Persons
  (a) No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate except as provided by Subsection (b). (b) If a beneficiary of a life...
• Texas Section 201.059 - Person Who Dies By Casualty
  Death by casualty does not result in forfeiture of estate. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January...
• Texas Section 201.060 - Alienage
  A person is not disqualified to take as an heir because the person, or another person through whom the person claims, is or has been...
• Texas Section 201.061 - Estate Of Person Who Dies By Suicide
  The estate of a person who commits suicide descends or vests as if the person died a natural death. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER C DISTRIBUTION TO HEIRS

• Texas Section 201.062 - Treatment Of Certain Parent-child Relationships
  (a) A probate court may enter an order declaring that the parent of a child under 18 years of age may not inherit from or...
• Texas Section 201.101 - Determination Of Per Capita With Representation Distribution
  (a) The children, descendants, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, or other relatives of an intestate who stand in the first or same degree of relationship alone...
• Texas Section 201.102 - No Distinction Based On Property's Source
  A distinction may not be made, in regulating the descent and distribution of an estate of a person dying intestate, between property derived by gift,...

SUBCHAPTER D ADVANCEMENTS

• Texas Section 201.103 - Treatment Of Intestate's Estate
  All of the estate to which an intestate had title at the time of death descends and vests in the intestate's heirs in the same...
• Texas Section 201.151 - Determination Of Advancement; Date Of Valuation
  (a) If a decedent dies intestate as to all or part of the decedent's estate, property that the decedent gave during the decedent's lifetime to...
• Texas Section 201.152 - Survival Of Recipient Required
  If the recipient of property described by Section 201.151 does not survive the decedent, the property is not considered in computing the division and distribution...

Last modified: September 28, 2016