Texas Estates Code §202.009 requires the court to appoint an attorney ad litem to represent any unknown or unlocated heirs in heirship proceedings. The statute also permits the court to extend that appointment to an incapacitated heir when necessary to protect that person's interests. You may be handling your parent's estate while grieving, gathering records,
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A funeral home may be waiting for payment while a Texas family is still trying to understand who has authority to act. The decedent's bank account may be inaccessible, relatives may live in different states, and no one may yet hold legal authority to manage the estate. Grief becomes mixed with urgent decisions about burial,
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After months of gathering property, paying bills, communicating with heirs, and distributing what remained, you may feel that the estate is finished. Then a document mentions Estates Code §405.003, and a new question appears: how do you formally end your responsibilities as executor? That confusion is understandable. Closing a loved one's estate combines grief, family
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After exactly fifteen months have passed from the date the court clerk first issues letters testamentary or letters of administration, any person interested in a Texas estate may demand an accounting from the independent executor. If the executor refuses or fails to comply, the interested person may ask the probate court to compel the accounting.
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