Sec. 52.001.  PROBATE DOCKET.  (a)  The county clerk shall maintain a record book titled "Judge's Probate Docket" and shall record in the book:
(1)  the name of each person with respect to whom, or with respect to whose estate, proceedings are commenced or sought to be commenced;
(2)  the name of each executor, administrator, or applicant for letters testamentary or of administration;
(3)  the date each original application for probate proceedings is filed;
(4)  a notation of each order, judgment, decree, and proceeding that occurs in each estate, including the date it occurs; and
(5)  the docket number of each estate as assigned under Subsection (b).
(b)  The county clerk shall assign a docket number to each estate in the order proceedings are commenced.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
Amended by: 
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 91 (S.B. 1303), Sec. 8.001, eff. January 1, 2014.