Sec. 783. NOTICE BY GUARDIAN OF APPOINTMENT

(a) Within one month after receiving letters, personal representatives of estates shall send to the comptroller of public accounts by certified or registered mail if the ward remitted or should have remitted taxes administered by the comptroller of public accounts and publish in some newspaper, printed in the county where the letters were issued, if there be one, a notice requiring all persons having a claim against the estate being administered to present the claim within the time prescribed by law. The notice must include the time of issuance of letters held by the representative, the address to which a claim may be presented, and an instruction of the representative's choice that a claim be addressed in care of the representative, in care of the representative's attorney, or in care of "Representative, Estate of __________" (naming the estate).

(b) A copy of the printed notice, with the affidavit of the publisher, duly sworn to and subscribed before a proper officer, to the effect that the notice was published as provided in this chapter for the service of citation or notice by publication, shall be filed in the court in which the cause is pending.

(c) When no newspaper is printed in the county, the notice shall be posted and the return made and filed as required by this chapter.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 957, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 77, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.