Texas Estates Code

§ 22.007 — COURT; COUNTY COURT, PROBATE COURT, AND STATUTORY PROBATE COURT

ES § 22.007Title 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Ch. 22. DEFINITIONS

(a)"Court" means and includes:

(1)a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;

(2)a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and

(3)a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.

(b)The terms "county court" and "probate court" are synonymous and mean:

(1)a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.