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Tex. Est. Code § 1056.101

REVISION AND CORRECTION OF ORDER OR JUDGMENT IN GUARDIANSHIP PROCEEDING

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Lorri Burnett and David Burnett v. Lisa E. Lunceford and Grace Guardians, Individually and as Guardian for Lynne Shirley Paxton (2016)

Most recently applied in Lorri Burnett and David Burnett v. Lisa E. Lunceford and Grace Guardians, Individually and as Guardian for Lynne Shirley Paxton (December 2016)

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff

(a) An interested person, including a ward, may, by a bill of review filed in the court in which the guardianship proceeding was held, have an order or judgment rendered by the court revised and corrected on a showing of error in the order or judgment.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a bill of review to revise and correct an order or judgment may not be filed more than two years after the date of the order or judgment.

(c) A bill of review to revise and correct an order or judgment filed by a person whose disability has been removed must be filed not later than the second anniversary of the date the person's disability was removed.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.