Texas Estates Code

§ 355.110 — ALLOCATION OF FUNERAL EXPENSES

ES § 355.110Title 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY · Part H. CONTINUATION OF ADMINISTRATION · Ch. 355. PRESENTMENT AND PAYMENT OF CLAIMS · Art. C. PAYMENT OF CLAIMS, ALLOWANCES, AND EXPENSES

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A personal representative paying a claim for funeral expenses and for items incident to the funeral, such as a tombstone, grave marker, crypt, or burial plot:

(1)shall charge all of the claim to the decedent's estate; and

(2)may not charge any part of the claim to the community share of a surviving spouse.

Legislative history

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