Tex. Estates Code § 33.052
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 33.052, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 33.052. CONCURRENT VENUE.
Official statutory text
(a) If applications for probate proceedings involving the same estate are filed in two or more courts having concurrent venue, the court in which a proceeding involving the estate was first commenced has and retains jurisdiction of the proceeding to the exclusion of the other court or courts in which a proceeding involving the same estate was commenced.
(b) The first commenced probate proceeding extends to all of the decedent's property, including the decedent's estate property.
(b) The first commenced probate proceeding extends to all of the decedent's property, including the decedent's estate property.
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