Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014)

Sec. 36D. EXAMINATION OF DOCUMENT OR SAFE DEPOSIT BOX WITHOUT COURT ORDER

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(a) A person who possesses or controls a document delivered by a decedent for safekeeping or who leases a safe deposit box to a decedent may permit any of the following persons to examine the document or the contents of the safe deposit box:
(1) the spouse of the decedent;
(2) a parent of the decedent;
(3) a descendant of the decedent who is at least 18 years old; or
(4) a person named as executor of the decedent's estate in a copy of a document that the person has and that appears to be a will of the decedent.
(b) The examination shall be conducted in the presence of the person who possesses or controls the document or who leases the safe deposit box or, if the person is a corporation, an officer of the corporation.

Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., 1st C.S., p. 193, ch. 17, art. 3, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.

                    
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