Texas Estates Code 1052.052 – Case Files
(a) The county clerk shall maintain a case file for each person‘s filed guardianship proceedings.
(b) Each case file must contain each order, judgment, and proceeding of the court and any other guardianship filing with the court, including each:
(1) application for the granting of guardianship;
(2) citation and notice, whether published or posted, including the return on the citation or notice;
(3) bond and official oath or declaration;
(4) inventory, appraisement, and list of claims;
(5) exhibit and account;
(6) report of renting;
(7) application for sale or partition of real estate;
(8) report of sale;
(9) application for authority to execute a lease for mineral development, or for pooling or unitization of lands, royalty, or other interest in minerals, or to lend or invest money;
(10) report of lending or investing money; and
(11) report of guardians of the persons.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 1052.052
- Claims: includes :
(1) liabilities of a decedent that survive the decedent's death, including taxes, regardless of whether the liabilities arise in contract or tort or otherwise;
(2) funeral expenses;
(3) the expense of a tombstone;
(4) expenses of administration;
(5) estate and inheritance taxes; and
(6) debts due such estates. See Texas Estates Code 22.005 - Court: means and includes:
(1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.007 - Estate: means a decedent's property, as that property:
(1) exists originally and as the property changes in form by sale, reinvestment, or otherwise;
(2) is augmented by any accretions and other additions to the property, including any property to be distributed to the decedent's representative by the trustee of a trust that terminates on the decedent's death, and substitutions for the property; and
(3) is diminished by any decreases in or distributions from the property. See Texas Estates Code 22.012 - Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Person: includes a natural person and a corporation. See Texas Estates Code 22.027