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Every source behind the Texas guide

3 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 12 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch October 3, 2026

What each source establishes

The Texas guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and any statutory creditor-deadline gaps the related guide names rather than guesses through.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

Tex. Est. Code § 205.001

Texas Legislature (statutes content host) · eff. September 1, 2017. · Verified August 9, 2026

The distributees of the estate of a decedent who dies intestate are entitled to the decedent's estate without waiting for the appointment of a personal representative of the estate to the extent the estate assets, excluding homestead and exempt property, exceed the known liabilities of the estate, excluding any liabilities secured by homestead and exempt property, if: (1) 30 days have elapsed since the date of the decedent's death; (2) no petition for the appointment of a personal representative is pending or has been granted; (3) the value of the estate assets on the date of the affidavit described by Subdivision (4), excluding homestead and exempt property, does not exceed $75,000;

What this means: Fetched from tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources, the Texas Legislature's own statutes content host that backs statutes.capitol.texas.gov (which now serves a client-rendered app shell with no server-side statute text).

What was published from this source

  • TX Tex. Est. Code § 205.001

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • TX small-estate $75,000
  • TX small-estate intestate + 30 days
  • TX small-estate 30-day wait
  • TX ch205 section identity
  • section identity

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Executor compensation rule

Tex. Est. Code § 352.002

Texas Legislature (statutes content host) · eff. January 1, 2014. · Verified August 9, 2026

is entitled to receive a five percent commission on all amounts that the executor or administrator actually receives or pays out in cash in the administration of the estate.

What this means: Section 352.002(b) caps the commission in the aggregate at 5% of the gross fair market value of the estate and excludes cash on hand/in accounts at death, life-insurance proceeds, and cash paid to heirs/legatees. Section 352.003 allows alternate reasonable compensation for unusual efforts.

What was published from this source

  • TX Tex. Est. Code § 352.002

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • TX executor 5% commission on cash
  • TX executor 5% aggregate cap on gross FMV
  • TX ch352 section identity
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 118.052

Texas Legislature (statutes content host) · eff. January 1, 2024. · Verified August 9, 2026

(2) PROBATE COURT ACTIONS (A) Services in Pending Probate Action (Sec. 118.056 ): (i) Filing an inventory and appraisement as provided by Section 118.056 (d) . . . $25.00;

What this means: This statewide schedule fixes only specific per-service probate fees (e.g., $25 to file an inventory, $10 for a claim against the estate). It does NOT set a single statewide fee to open a probate: the opening filing fee is a consolidated charge set by each county under Government Code / commissioners-court authority, so the opening amount is county-variable.

What was published from this source

  • TX Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 118.052

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • TX probate service fees are statewide per-item
  • TX LG118 section identity
  • section identity

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What Texas courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

Limits on court material

  • Texas does not publish a single statewide set of fill-in probate forms; many counties require an attorney to open an administration and publish their own local forms and fee schedules.

Checking these Texas records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the267 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Texas. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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