Sec. 22.007.  COURT; COUNTY COURT, PROBATE COURT, AND STATUTORY PROBATE COURT.  (a)  "Court" means and includes:
(1)  a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2)  a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3)  a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(b)  The terms "county court" and "probate court" are synonymous and mean:
(1)  a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2)  a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3)  a district court exercising probate jurisdiction in a contested matter.
(c)  "Statutory probate court" means a court created by statute and designated as a statutory probate court under Chapter 25, Government Code.  For purposes of this 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 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.