Texas Estates Code Title 2, Chapter 301 - Application For Letters Testamentary Or Of Administration

SUBCHAPTER A PERIOD FOR APPLICATION FOR LETTERS

• Texas Section 301.001 - Administration Before Death Void
  The administration of an estate of a living person is void. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff....

SUBCHAPTER B APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Texas Section 301.002 - Period For Filing Application For Letters Testamentary Or Of Administration
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Section 501.006 with respect to a foreign will, an application for the grant of letters testamentary or...
• Texas Section 301.051 - Eligible Applicants For Letters
  An executor named in a will, an independent administrator designated by all of the distributees of the decedent under Section 401.002(b) or 401.003, or an...

SUBCHAPTER C OPPOSITION TO CERTAIN APPLICATIONS

• Texas Section 301.052 - Contents Of Application For Letters Of Administration
  An application for letters of administration when no will is alleged to exist must state: (1) the applicant's name, domicile, and, if any, relationship to...

SUBCHAPTER D REQUIRED PROOF FOR ISSUANCE OF LETTERS

• Texas Section 301.101 - Opposition To Application For Letters Of Administration
  An interested person may, at any time before an application for letters of administration is granted, file an opposition to the application in writing and...
• Texas Section 301.151 - General Proof Requirements
  An applicant for the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration of an estate must prove to the court's satisfaction that: (1) the person whose...
• Texas Section 301.151 - General Proof Requirements
  An applicant for the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration of an estate must prove to the court's satisfaction that: (1) the person whose...
• Texas Section 301.152 - Additional Proof Required For Letters Testamentary
  If letters testamentary are to be granted, it must appear to the court that: (1) the proof required for the probate of the will has...
• Texas Section 301.153 - Additional Proof Required For Letters Of Administration; Effect Of Finding No Necessity For Administration Exists
  (a) If letters of administration are to be granted, the applicant for the letters must prove to the court's satisfaction that a necessity for an...
• Texas Section 301.154 - Proof Required When Letters Have Previously Been Granted
  If letters testamentary or of administration have previously been granted with respect to an estate, an applicant for the granting of subsequent letters must show...

SUBCHAPTER E PREVENTION OF ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 301.155 - Authorized Methods Of Proof
  A fact contained in an application for issuance of letters testamentary or of administration or any other fact required to be proved by this subchapter...
• Texas Section 301.201 - Method Of Preventing Administration Requested By Creditor
  (a) If a creditor files an application for letters of administration of an estate, another interested person who does not desire the administration can defeat...
• Texas Section 301.202 - Suit On Bond
  Any creditor for whose protection a bond is executed under Section 301.201(a)(3) may sue on the bond in the creditor's own name to recover the...
• Texas Section 301.203 - Bond Secured By Lien
  If a bond is executed and approved under Section 301.201(a)(3), a lien exists on all of the estate in the possession of the distributees, and...

Last modified: September 28, 2016