Transcription of ESTATES CODE TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS CHAPTER 21 ...
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ESTATES CODESec. PURPOSE OF code . (a) This code is enacted as apart of the state's continuing statutory revision program, begun bythe Texas Legislative Council in 1963 as directed by the legislaturein the law codified as Section , Government code . The programcontemplates a topic-by-topic revision of the state's GENERAL andpermanent statute law without substantive change.(b) Consistent with the objectives of the statutory revisionprogram, the purpose of this code is to make the law encompassed bythis code more accessible and understandable by:(1) rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;(2) employing a format and numbering system designed tofacilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future expansion ofthe law;(3) eliminating repealed, duplicative, unconstitutional,expired, executed, and other ineffective PROVISIONS ; and(4) restating the law in modern American English to thegreatest extent possible.
and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code. For purposes of this code, the term does not include a county court at law exercising probate jurisdiction unless the court is designated a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff.
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