Tex. Est. Code § 1002.008 : ESTATES CODE — GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES — GENERAL PROVISIONS — DEFINITIONS — Court; Probate Court; Statutory Probate Court

(a) "Court" or "probate court" means:
(1) a county court exercising its probate jurisdiction;
(2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; or
(3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(b) "Statutory probate court" means a court created by statute and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code. The term does not include a county court at law exercising probate jurisdiction unless the court is designated a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code.

Tex. Estates § 1002.008

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823, Sec. 1.02, eff. 1/1/2014.
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