SUBCHAPTER C.  SURVIVAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN BENEFICIARIES

Sec. 121.101.  REQUIRED PERIOD OF SURVIVAL FOR DEVISEE.  A devisee who does not survive the testator by 120 hours is treated as if the devisee predeceased the testator unless the testator's will contains some language that:
(1)  deals explicitly with simultaneous death or deaths in a common disaster; or
(2)  requires the devisee to survive the testator, or to survive the testator for a stated period, to take under the will.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.