Tex. Estates Code § 121.153
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 121.153, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 121.153. DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN INSURANCE PROCEEDS.
Official statutory text
(a) If the insured under a life or accident insurance policy and a beneficiary of the proceeds of that policy die within a period of less than 120 hours, the insured is considered to have survived the beneficiary for the purpose of determining the rights under the policy of the beneficiary or beneficiaries as such.
(b) This section does not prevent the applicability of Section 121.151 to proceeds of life or accident insurance that are community property.
(b) This section does not prevent the applicability of Section 121.151 to proceeds of life or accident insurance that are community property.
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