Tex. Estates Code § 202.054
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 202.054, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 202.054. PERSONAL SERVICE OF CITATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
Official statutory text
(a) The court may require that service of citation in a proceeding to declare heirship be made by personal service on some or all of those named as distributees in the application filed under Section 202.005.
(b) If a distributee to be cited under Subsection (a) is absent from or is not a resident of this state, any disinterested person competent to make an oath that the citation was served may serve the citation.
(b) If a distributee to be cited under Subsection (a) is absent from or is not a resident of this state, any disinterested person competent to make an oath that the citation was served may serve the citation.
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