2019 Texas Statutes
Estates Code
Title 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 22 - Definitions
Section 22.012. Estate

Universal Citation: TX Est Code § 22.012 (2019)

Sec. 22.012. ESTATE. "Estate" means a decedent's property, as that property:

(1) exists originally and as the property changes in form by sale, reinvestment, or otherwise;

(2) is augmented by any accretions and other additions to the property, including any property to be distributed to the decedent's representative by the trustee of a trust that terminates on the decedent's death, and substitutions for the property; and

(3) is diminished by any decreases in or distributions from the property.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

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