Texas Estates Code

§ 52.002 — CLAIM DOCKET

ES § 52.002Title 2. ESTATES OF DECEDENTS; DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY · Part B. PROCEDURAL MATTERS · Ch. 52. FILING AND RECORDKEEPING · Art. A. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS

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(a)The county clerk shall maintain a record book titled "Claim Docket" and shall record in the book each claim that is presented against an estate for the court's approval.

(b)The county clerk shall assign one or more pages of the record book to each estate.

(c)The claim docket must be ruled in 16 columns at proper intervals from top to bottom, with a short note of the contents at the top of each column. The county clerk shall record for each claim, in the order claims are filed, the following information in the respective columns, beginning with the first or marginal column:

(1)the name of the claimant;

(2)the amount of the claim;

(3)the date of the claim;

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Legislative history

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