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  CHAPTER 732. PROBATE CODE: INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND WILLS  


PART I. INTESTATE SUCCESSION
SECTION 732.101. Intestate estate.
SECTION 732.102. Spouse’s share of intestate estate.
SECTION 732.103. Share of other heirs.
SECTION 732.104. Inheritance per stirpes.
SECTION 732.105. Half blood.
SECTION 732.106. Afterborn heirs.
SECTION 732.107. Escheat.
SECTION 732.108. Adopted persons and persons born out of wedlock.
SECTION 732.1081. Termination of parental rights.
SECTION 732.109. Debts to decedent.
SECTION 732.1101. Aliens.
SECTION 732.111. Dower and curtesy abolished.
PART II. ELECTIVE SHARE OF SURVIVING SPOUSE; RIGHTS IN COMMUNITY PROPERTY
SECTION 732.201. Right to elective share.
SECTION 732.2025. Definitions.
SECTION 732.2035. Property entering into elective estate.
SECTION 732.2045. Exclusions and overlapping application.
SECTION 732.2055. Valuation of the elective estate.
SECTION 732.2065. Amount of the elective share.
SECTION 732.2075. Sources from which elective share payable; abatement.
SECTION 732.2085. Liability of direct recipients and beneficiaries.
SECTION 732.2095. Valuation of property used to satisfy elective share.
SECTION 732.2105. Effect of election on other interests.
SECTION 732.2115. Protection of payors and other third parties.
SECTION 732.2125. Right of election; by whom exercisable.
SECTION 732.2135. Time of election; extensions; withdrawal.
SECTION 732.2145. Order of contribution; personal representative’s duty to collect contribution.
SECTION 732.2151. Award of fees and costs in elective share proceedings.
SECTION 732.2155. Effective date; effect of prior waivers; transition rules.
SECTION 732.216. Short title.
SECTION 732.217. Application.
SECTION 732.218. Rebuttable presumptions.
SECTION 732.219. Disposition upon death.
SECTION 732.221. Perfection of title of personal representative or beneficiary.
SECTION 732.222. Purchaser for value or lender.
SECTION 732.223. Perfection of title of surviving spouse.
SECTION 732.224. Creditor’s rights.
SECTION 732.225. Acts of married persons.
SECTION 732.226. Limitations on testamentary disposition.
SECTION 732.227. Homestead defined.
SECTION 732.228. Uniformity of application and construction.
PART III. PRETERMITTED SPOUSE AND CHILDREN
SECTION 732.301. Pretermitted spouse.
SECTION 732.302. Pretermitted children.
PART IV. EXEMPT PROPERTY AND ALLOWANCES
SECTION 732.401. Descent of homestead.
SECTION 732.4015. Devise of homestead.
SECTION 732.4017. Inter vivos transfer of homestead property.
SECTION 732.402. Exempt property.
SECTION 732.403. Family allowance.
PART V. WILLS
SECTION 732.501. Who may make a will.
SECTION 732.502. Execution of wills.
SECTION 732.503. Self-proof of will.
SECTION 732.504. Who may witness.
SECTION 732.505. Revocation by writing.
SECTION 732.506. Revocation by act.
SECTION 732.507. Effect of subsequent marriage, birth, adoption, or dissolution of marriage.
SECTION 732.508. Revival by revocation.
SECTION 732.509. Revocation of codicil.
SECTION 732.5105. Republication of wills by codicil.
SECTION 732.511. Republication of wills by reexecution.
SECTION 732.512. Incorporation by reference.
SECTION 732.513. Devises to trustee.
SECTION 732.514. Vesting of devises.
SECTION 732.515. Separate writing identifying devises of tangible property.
SECTION 732.5165. Effect of fraud, duress, mistake, and undue influence.
SECTION 732.517. Penalty clause for contest.
SECTION 732.518. Will contests.
SECTION 732.521. Definitions.
SECTION 732.522. Method and place of execution.
SECTION 732.523. Self-proof of electronic will.
SECTION 732.524. Qualified custodians.
SECTION 732.525. Liability coverage; receivership of qualified custodians.
SECTION 732.526. Probate.
PART VI. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
SECTION 732.6005. Rules of construction and intention.
SECTION 732.601. Simultaneous Death Law.
SECTION 732.603. Antilapse; deceased devisee; class gifts.
SECTION 732.604. Failure of testamentary provision.
SECTION 732.605. Change in securities; accessions; nonademption.
SECTION 732.606. Nonademption of specific devises in certain cases; sale by guardian of the property; unpaid proceeds of sale, condemnation, or insurance.
SECTION 732.607. Exercise of power of appointment.
SECTION 732.608. Construction of terms.
SECTION 732.609. Ademption by satisfaction.
SECTION 732.611. Devises to multigeneration classes to be per stirpes.
SECTION 732.615. Reformation to correct mistakes.
SECTION 732.616. Modification to achieve testator’s tax objectives.
PART VII. CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS RELATING TO DEATH
SECTION 732.701. Agreements concerning succession.
SECTION 732.702. Waiver of spousal rights.
SECTION 732.7025. Waiver of homestead rights through deed.
SECTION 732.703. Effect of divorce, dissolution, or invalidity of marriage on disposition of certain assets at death.
PART VIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 732.802. Killer not entitled to receive property or other benefits by reason of victim’s death.
SECTION 732.804. Provisions relating to disposition of the body.
SECTION 732.805. Spousal rights procured by fraud, duress, or undue influence.
SECTION 732.806. Gifts to lawyers and other disqualified persons.
PART IX. PRODUCTION OF WILLS
SECTION 732.901. Production of wills.