Texas § ES.255.101 - CERTAIN LIFETIME GIFTS CONSIDERED SATISFACTION OF DEVISE
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§ ES.255.101. CERTAIN LIFETIME GIFTS CONSIDERED SATISFACTION OF DEVISE
CERTAIN LIFETIME GIFTS CONSIDERED SATISFACTION OF DEVISE. Property that a testator gives to a person during the testator's lifetime is considered a satisfaction, either wholly or partly, of a devise to the person if: (1) the testator's will provides for deduction of the lifetime gift from the devise; (2) the testator declares in a contemporaneous writing that the lifetime gift is to be deducted from, or is in satisfaction of, the devise; or (3) the devisee acknowledges in writing that the lifetime gift is in satisfaction of the devise. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502 ), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
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