Title ES, Estates Code

Sec. 201.052. PATERNAL INHERITANCE. (a) For purposes of inheritance, a child is the child of the child's biological father if: (1) the child is born under circumstances described by Section 160.201, Family Code; (2) the child is adjudicated to be the child of the father by court …

Sec. 201.053. EFFECT OF RELIANCE ON AFFIDAVIT OF HEIRSHIP. (a) A person who purchases for valuable consideration any interest in property of the heirs of a decedent acquires good title to the interest that the person would have received, as purchaser, in the absence of a claim of…

Sec. 201.054. ADOPTED CHILD. (a) For purposes of inheritance under the laws of descent and distribution, an adopted child is regarded as the child of the adoptive parent or parents, and the adopted child and the adopted child's descendants inherit from and through the adoptive pa…

Sec. 201.055. ISSUE OF VOID OR VOIDABLE MARRIAGE. The issue of a marriage declared void or voided by annulment shall be treated in the same manner as the issue of a valid marriage. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Sec. 201.056. PERSONS NOT IN BEING. No right of inheritance accrues to any person unless the person is born before, or is in gestation at, the time of the intestate's death and survives for at least 120 hours. A person is: (1) considered to be in gestation at the time of the inte…

Sec. 201.057. COLLATERAL KINDRED OF WHOLE AND HALF BLOOD. If the inheritance from an intestate passes to the collateral kindred of the intestate and part of the collateral kindred are of whole blood and the other part are of half blood of the intestate, each of the collateral kin…

Sec. 201.058. CONVICTED PERSONS. (a) No conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate except as provided by Subsection (b). (b) If a beneficiary of a life insurance policy or contract is convicted and sentenced as a principal or accomplice in wilfully bringing…

Sec. 201.059. PERSON WHO DIES BY CASUALTY. Death by casualty does not result in forfeiture of estate. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Sec. 201.060. ALIENAGE. A person is not disqualified to take as an heir because the person, or another person through whom the person claims, is or has been an alien. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Sec. 201.061. ESTATE OF PERSON WHO DIES BY SUICIDE. The estate of a person who commits suicide descends or vests as if the person died a natural death. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Sec. 201.062. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS. (a) A probate court may enter an order declaring that the parent of a child under 18 years of age may not inherit from or through the child under the laws of descent and distribution if the court finds by clear and co…

Sec. 201.101. DETERMINATION OF PER CAPITA WITH REPRESENTATION DISTRIBUTION. (a) The children, descendants, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, or other relatives of an intestate who stand in the first or same degree of relationship alone and come into the distribution of the intest…

Sec. 201.102. NO DISTINCTION BASED ON PROPERTY'S SOURCE. A distinction may not be made, in regulating the descent and distribution of an estate of a person dying intestate, between property derived by gift, devise, or descent from the intestate's father, and property derived by g…

Sec. 201.103. TREATMENT OF INTESTATE'S ESTATE. All of the estate to which an intestate had title at the time of death descends and vests in the intestate's heirs in the same manner as if the intestate had been the original purchaser. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (…

Sec. 201.151. DETERMINATION OF ADVANCEMENT; DATE OF VALUATION. (a) If a decedent dies intestate as to all or part of the decedent's estate, property that the decedent gave during the decedent's lifetime to a person who, on the date of the decedent's death, is the decedent's heir,…

Sec. 201.152. SURVIVAL OF RECIPIENT REQUIRED. If the recipient of property described by Section 201.151 does not survive the decedent, the property is not considered in computing the division and distribution of the decedent's intestate estate unless the decedent's contemporaneou…