Tex. Estates Code § 504.051
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 504.051, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 504.051. NOTICE OF WILL CONTEST IN FOREIGN JURISDICTION.
Official statutory text
Verified notice that a proceeding to contest a will probated or established in a foreign jurisdiction has been commenced in that jurisdiction may be filed and recorded in the judge's probate docket of the court in this state in which the foreign will was probated, or in the deed records of any county of this state in which the foreign will was recorded, within the time limits for the contest of a foreign will in this state.
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