Tex. Estates Code § 22.007
COURT; COUNTY COURT, PROBATE COURT, AND STATUTORY PROBATE COURT
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- Tex. Estates Code § 22.007, COURT; COUNTY COURT, PROBATE COURT, AND STATUTORY PROBATE COURT, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/623886
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(a) "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.
(b) The terms "county court" and "probate court" are synonymous and mean:
(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 probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(c) "Statutory probate court" means a court created by statute and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code. For purposes of this code, the term does not include a county court at law exercising probate jurisdiction unless the court is designated a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code.