Texas Estates Code 360.103 – Expenses of Partition
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(a) The distributees shall pay the expense of the estate‘s partition pro rata.
(b) The portion of the estate allotted to a distributee is liable for the distributee’s portion of the partition expense, and, if not paid, the court may order execution for the expense in the names of the persons entitled to payment of the expense.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 360.103
- 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 - Distributee: means a person who is entitled to a part of the estate of a decedent under a lawful will or the statutes of descent and distribution. See Texas Estates Code 22.010
- 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