REVISION AND CORRECTION OF ORDER OR JUDGMENT IN PROBATE PROCEEDING
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Valdez v. Hollenbeck (2015)
Most recently applied in William Frank Byerley, Individually and as Independent of the Estate of Francis William Byerley v. Carol McCulley, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Winnie Aline Byerley (February 2017)
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) An interested person may, by a bill of review filed in the court in which the probate proceedings were held, have an order or judgment rendered by the court revised and corrected on a showing of error in the order or judgment, as applicable.
(b) 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, as applicable.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.