Tex. Property Code § 65.003
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 65.003, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 65.003. REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION.
Official statutory text
The occupying co-owner may establish the authority to act as an agent and attorney-in-fact for another co-owner by filing in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the real property is located:
(1) an affidavit of the occupying co-owner affirming the facts described by Sections 65.002(1)-(3);
(2) the affidavits of two additional affiants personally familiar with the co-owner's occupancy of the real property corroborating the occupancy during the preceding five years; and
(3) a certificate of the tax assessor-collector for the county in which the real property is located affirming that the co-owner has paid all taxes assessed against the real property for the preceding five years without delinquency.
(1) an affidavit of the occupying co-owner affirming the facts described by Sections 65.002(1)-(3);
(2) the affidavits of two additional affiants personally familiar with the co-owner's occupancy of the real property corroborating the occupancy during the preceding five years; and
(3) a certificate of the tax assessor-collector for the county in which the real property is located affirming that the co-owner has paid all taxes assessed against the real property for the preceding five years without delinquency.
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