Since 1955, the Texas Probate Code essentially has covered all of the laws pertaining to wills, estates, probate and guardianship. But this past January, the Texas Probate Code was incorporated into the Estates Code, and all forms were changed to reflect as much.
For a variety of reasons, which Bill Pargaman outlined in his Jan. 8 paper “The Story of the Texas Estates Code,” our Legislature incorporated the Probate Code into a new code, the Texas Estates Code. The Legislature might have named the new code any variety of names, including “Estates and Guardianship Code” or “New Probate Code,” but it ended up with the moniker of Estates Code. Most states have adopted the Uniform Probate Code, whose statutes usually refer to “Probate Code” in their titles.
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