Texas Estates Code 455.005 – Informing Public Probate Administrator
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(a) If a public officer or employee knows of a decedent without known or suitable next of kin or knows of property of a decedent that is subject to loss, injury, waste, or misappropriation, the officer or employee may inform the public probate administrator of that fact.
(b) If a person dies in a hospital, mental health facility, or board and care facility without known or suitable next of kin, the person in charge of the hospital or facility may give immediate notice of that fact to the public probate administrator of the county in which the hospital or facility is located.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 455.005
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Next of kin: includes :
(1) an adopted child or the adopted child's descendants; and
(2) the adoptive parent of the adopted child. See Texas Estates Code 22.026 - Person: includes a natural person and a corporation. See Texas Estates Code 22.027
- Probate: Proving a will
- Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) A funeral director in control of a decedent’s remains may notify the public probate administrator if:
(1) none of the persons listed in Section 711.002, Health and Safety Code, can be found after a reasonable inquiry or contacted by reasonable means; or
(2) any of the persons listed in Section 711.002, Health and Safety Code, refuses to act.