Texas Estates Code
§ 1002.008 — COURT; PROBATE COURT; STATUTORY PROBATE COURT
ES § 1002.008Title 3. GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES · Part A. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Ch. 1002. DEFINITIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)"Court" or "probate court" means:
(1)a county court exercising its probate jurisdiction;
(2)a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; or
(3)a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(b)"Statutory probate court" means a court created by statute and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code. The term does not include a county court at law exercising probate jurisdiction unless the court is designated a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.