Texas Estates Code

§ 114.055 — REQUIREMENTS

ES § 114.055Title 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY · Part C. PASSAGE OF TITLE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DECEDENTS' PROPERTY IN GENERAL · Ch. 114. TRANSFER ON DEATH DEED · Art. B. AUTHORIZATION, EXECUTION, AND REVOCATION OF TRANSFER ON DEATH DEED

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To be effective, a transfer on death deed must:

(1)except as otherwise provided in Subdivision (2), contain the essential elements and formalities of a recordable deed;

(2)state that the transfer of an interest in real property to the designated beneficiary is to occur at the transferor's death; and

(3)be recorded before the transferor's death in the deed records in the county clerk's office of the county where the real property is located.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 841 (S.B. 462), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.