Sec. 636. NOTICES TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS BY GUARDIANS  


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  • When an annual or other account of funds, or an application for the expenditure of or investment of funds is filed by a guardian whose ward is a beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or when a claim against the estate of a ward who is a beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs is filed, the court shall set a date for the hearing of the account, application, petition, or claim to be held not less than 20 days from the date of the filing of the account, application, petition, or claim. The person who files the account, application, petition, or claim shall give notice of the date of the filing to the office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in whose territory the court is located by mailing to the office a certified copy of the account, application, petition, or claim not later than five days after the date of the filing. An office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, through its attorney, may waive the service of notice and the time within which a hearing may be had in those cases.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 1039, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.