Case Files

Sec. 52.052. CASE FILES. (a) The county clerk shall maintain a case file for the estate of each decedent for which a probate proceeding has been filed. (b) Each case file must contain each order, judgment, and proceeding of the court and any other probate filing with the court, including each: (1) application for the probate of a will; (2) application for the granting of administration; (3) citation and notice, whether published or posted, including the return on the citation or notice; (4) will and the testimony on which the will is admitted to probate; (5) bond and official oath; (6) inventory, appraisement, and list of claims; (6-a) affidavit in lieu of the inventory, appraisement, and list of claims; (7) exhibit and account; (8) report of renting; (9) application for sale or partition of real estate; (10) report of sale; (11) report of the commissioners of partition; (12) application for authority to execute a lease for mineral development, or for pooling or unitization of lands, royalty, or other interest in minerals, or to lend or invest money; and (13) report of lending or investing money. (c) Only the substance of a deposition must be recorded under Subsection (b)(4). Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1338 (S.B. 1198), Sec. 2.05, eff. January 1, 2014.