Tex. Estates Code § 255.351
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 255.351, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 255.351. EXERCISE OF POWER OF APPOINTMENT THROUGH WILL.
Official statutory text
A testator may not exercise a power of appointment through a residuary clause in the testator's will or through a will providing for general disposition of all of the testator's property unless:
(1) the testator makes a specific reference to the power in the will; or
(2) there is some other indication in writing that the testator intended to include the property subject to the power in the will.
(1) the testator makes a specific reference to the power in the will; or
(2) there is some other indication in writing that the testator intended to include the property subject to the power in the will.
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