Sec. 1002.008.  COURT; PROBATE COURT; STATUTORY PROBATE COURT.  (a)  "Court" or "probate court" means:
(1)  a county court exercising its probate jurisdiction;
(2)  a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; or
(3)  a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(b)  "Statutory probate court" means a court created by statute and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government 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.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.