Sec. 360.001.  GENERAL APPLICATION.  (a)  At any time after the first anniversary of the date original letters testamentary or of administration are granted, an executor, administrator, heir, or devisee of a decedent's estate, by written application filed in the court in which the estate is pending, may request the partition and distribution of the estate.
(b)  An application under Subsection (a) must state:
(1)  the decedent's name;
(2)  the name and residence of each person entitled to a share of the estate and whether the person is an adult or a minor;
(3)  if the applicant does not know a fact required by Subdivision (2); and
(4)  the reasons why the estate should be partitioned and distributed.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.