Tex. Est. Code Section 454.051
Restoration of Estate

(a)

Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person who was proved by circumstantial evidence to be dead under Section 454.002 (Grant of Letters on Proof of Death) and who, in a subsequent action, is proved by direct evidence to have been living at any time after the date the court granted the letters under that section, is entitled to restoration of the person’s estate or the residue of the person’s estate, including the rents and profits from the estate.

(b)

For estate property sold by the personal representative of the estate, a distributee, or a distributee’s successors or assignees to a bona fide purchaser for value, the right of a person to restoration is limited to the proceeds of the sale or the residue of the sold property with any increase of the proceeds or the residue.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.

Source: Section 454.051 — Restoration of Estate, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/ES/htm/ES.­454.­htm#454.­051 (accessed Apr. 20, 2024).

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