Tex. Estates Code § 401.006
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 401.006, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 401.006. GRANTING POWER OF SALE BY AGREEMENT.
Official statutory text
In a situation in which a decedent does not have a will, or a decedent's will does not contain language authorizing the personal representative to sell property or contains language that is not sufficient to grant the representative that authority, the court may include in an order appointing an independent executor any general or specific authority regarding the power of the independent executor to sell property that may be consented to by the distributees who are to receive any interest in the property in the application for independent administration or for the appointment of an independent executor or in their consents to the independent administration or to the appointment of an independent executor. The independent executor, in such event, may sell the property under the authority granted in the court order without the further consent of those distributees.
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