Sec. 551.001. PAYMENT OF CERTAIN SHARES OF ESTATE TO STATE    


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  • (a) The court, by written order, shall require the executor or administrator of an estate to pay to the comptroller as provided by this subchapter the share of that estate of a person entitled to that share who does not demand the share from the executor or administrator within six months after the date of, as applicable:

    (1) a court order approving the report of the commissioners of partition made under Section 360.154; or

    (2) the settlement of the final account of the executor or administrator.

    (b) This section does not apply to the share of an estate to which a resident minor without a guardian is entitled.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 , Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.