Tex. Est. Code Section 304.002
Renouncing Right to Serve as Personal Representative

A decedent’s surviving spouse, or, if there is no surviving spouse, the heirs or any one of the heirs of the decedent to the exclusion of any person not equally entitled to letters testamentary or of administration, may renounce the right to the letters in favor of another qualified person in open court or by a power of attorney authenticated and filed with the county clerk of the county where the application for the letters is filed. After the right to the letters has been renounced, the court may grant the letters to the other qualified person.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Source: Section 304.002 — Renouncing Right to Serve as Personal Representative, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.­304.­htm#304.­002 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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