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2025 Texas Statutes
Estates Code
Title 2 - Estates of Decedents; Durable Powers of Attorney
Subtitle F - Wills
Chapter 252 - Safekeeping and Custody of Wills
Subchapter A. Deposit of Will With County Clerk
Section 252.003. Numbering of Filed Wills and Corresponding Certificates

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TX Est Code § 252.003 (2025)
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Sec. 252.003. NUMBERING OF FILED WILLS AND CORRESPONDING CERTIFICATES. (a) A county clerk shall number wills deposited with the clerk in consecutive order.

(b) A certificate of deposit issued under Section 252.001(c) on receipt of a will must bear the same number as the will for which the certificate is issued.

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

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