Texas Estates Code

§ 101.001 — PASSAGE OF ESTATE ON DECEDENT'S DEATH

ES § 101.001Title 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY · Part C. PASSAGE OF TITLE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DECEDENTS' PROPERTY IN GENERAL · Ch. 101. ESTATE ASSETS IN GENERAL · Art. A. PASSAGE AND POSSESSION OF DECEDENT'S ESTATE ON DEATH

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(a)Subject to Section 101.051, if a person dies leaving a lawful will:

(1)all of the person's estate that is devised by the will vests immediately in the devisees;

(2)all powers of appointment granted in the will vest immediately in the donees of those powers; and

(3)all of the person's estate that is not devised by the will vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.

(b)Subject to Section 101.051, the estate of a person who dies intestate vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.