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Texas Estates Code - EST § 1104.204. Form and Content of Declaration and Self-Proving Affidavit

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) A declaration and affidavit may be in any form adequate to clearly indicate the declarant's intention to designate a guardian.

(b) The following form may be used but is not required to be used:

DECLARATION OF GUARDIAN

IN THE EVENT OF LATER INCAPACITY OR NEED OF GUARDIAN

I, __________, make this Declaration of Guardian, to operate if the need for a guardian for me later arises.

1. I designate __________ to serve as guardian of my person, __________ as first alternate guardian of my person, __________ as second alternate guardian of my person, and __________ as third alternate guardian of my person.

2. I designate __________ to serve as guardian of my estate, _______________________________ as first alternate guardian of my estate, __________ as second alternate guardian of my estate, and __________ as third alternate guardian of my estate.

3. If any guardian or alternate guardian dies, does not qualify, or resigns, the next named alternate guardian becomes my guardian.

4. I expressly disqualify the following persons from serving as guardian of my person:  __________, __________, and __________.

5. I expressly disqualify the following persons from serving as guardian of my estate:  __________, __________, and __________.

Signed this ___ day of __________, 20___.

_________________________________________________

 

Declarant

 

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Witness

Witness

SELF-PROVING AFFIDAVIT

Before me, the undersigned authority, on this date personally appeared _______________, the declarant, and __________ and __________ as witnesses, and all being duly sworn, the declarant said that the above instrument was his or her Declaration of Guardian and that the declarant had made and executed it for the purposes expressed in the declaration.  The witnesses declared to me that they are each 14 years of age or older, that they saw the declarant sign the declaration, that they signed the declaration as witnesses, and that the declarant appeared to them to be of sound mind.

_________________________________________________

 

Declarant

 

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Affiant

Affiant

Subscribed and sworn to before me by the above named declarant and affiants on this ___ day of __________, 20___.

 

_________________________________________________

 

Notary Public in and for the

State of Texas

My Commission expires:

_________________________________________________

(c) A declaration that complies with the requirements of Section 1104.203(a-1) may, but is not required to, be in the form specified by Subsection (b), except that instead of having attached the self-proving affidavit prescribed by that subsection, the declaration shall have attached the following acknowledgment:

STATE OF __________________

 

 

COUNTY OF ________________

This instrument was acknowledged before me on the ___ day of __________, 20_______,

by ________________________ (Declarant).

 

 

______________________

Notary Public, in and for

the State of Texas

Notary's printed name:

______________________

My commission expires:

______________________

(d) A declaration that complies with the requirements of Section 1104.203(a-1) that has attached the acknowledgment provided by Subsection (c) is considered self-proved.

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