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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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PROBATE CODE |
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Chapter V. PROBATE AND GRANT OF ADMINISTRATION |
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Part 2. PROCEDURE PERTAINING TO FOREIGN WILLS |
Sec. 96. FILING AND RECORDING FOREIGN WILL IN DEED RECORDS
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When any will or testamentary instrument conveying or in any manner disposing of land in this State has been duly probated according to the laws of any of the United States, or territories thereof, or the District of Columbia, or of any country out of the limits of the United States, a copy thereof and of its probate which bears the attestation, seal and certificate required by the preceding Section, may be filed and recorded in the deed records in any county of this State in which said real estate is situated, in the same manner as deeds and conveyances are required to be recorded under the laws of this State, and without further proof or authentication; provided that the validity of such a will or testamentary instrument filed under this Section may be contested in the manner and to the extent hereinafter provided.