Texas Estates Code

§ 101.002 — EFFECT OF JOINT OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY

ES § 101.002Title 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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If two or more persons hold an interest in property jointly and one joint owner dies before severance, the interest of the decedent in the joint estate:

(1)does not survive to the remaining joint owner or owners; and

(2)passes by will or intestacy from the decedent as if the decedent's interest had been severed.

Legislative history

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