Tex. Estates Code § 33.055
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 33.055, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 33.055. PROTECTION FOR CERTAIN PURCHASERS.
Official statutory text
Notwithstanding Section 33.052, a bona fide purchaser of real property who relied on a probate proceeding that was not the first commenced proceeding, without knowledge that the proceeding was not the first commenced proceeding, shall be protected with respect to the purchase unless before the purchase an order rendered in the first commenced proceeding admitting the decedent's will to probate, determining the decedent's heirs, or granting administration of the decedent's estate was recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the purchased property is located.
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