Bill Text: TX HB2274 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a suit to contest the validity of a will admitted to probate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Left pending in committee [HB2274 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2274-Introduced.html
84R8452 CLG-D | ||
By: Naishtat | H.B. No. 2274 |
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relating to a suit to contest the validity of a will admitted to | ||
probate. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 256.204, Estates Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 256.204. PERIOD FOR CONTEST. (a) After a will is | ||
admitted to probate, an interested person may commence a suit to | ||
contest the validity thereof not later than the first [ |
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anniversary of the date the will was admitted to probate, except | ||
that an interested person may commence a suit to cancel a will for | ||
forgery or other fraud not later than the first [ |
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anniversary of the date the forgery or fraud was discovered. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an incapacitated person | ||
may commence the contest under that subsection on or before the | ||
first [ |
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are removed. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
256.204, Estates Code, apply only to a will admitted to probate on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. A will admitted to probate | ||
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
effect on the date on which the will was admitted to probate, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |