Texas Estates Code

§ 121.101 — REQUIRED PERIOD OF SURVIVAL FOR DEVISEE

ES § 121.101Title 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY · Part C. PASSAGE OF TITLE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DECEDENTS' PROPERTY IN GENERAL · Ch. 121. SURVIVAL REQUIREMENTS · Art. C. SURVIVAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN BENEFICIARIES

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A devisee who does not survive the testator by 120 hours is treated as if the devisee predeceased the testator unless the testator's will contains some language that:

(1)deals explicitly with simultaneous death or deaths in a common disaster; or

(2)requires the devisee to survive the testator, or to survive the testator for a stated period, to take under the will.

Legislative history

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