**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

HoaorableL. 01 Bowel1 **Aoting County**  **Attorney** BoVio County **Texorkaru,** fexar

' Dear Sir% 

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an's general bond slon file is suffioient er double the amount atie ~1~8 double the or any pe~00nalpropthe hands of the

by the 48th Legislature, Regular SeasIon, 1943.

eassry for the guardian to file a *peol.+l aeler bond In double t&e amount for ohloh real eetatr is sold where the guardlan*rgeneral bond already on file ir auffioient to **oover** double the amount of the sale plus double the amount of any personalpropert

3;in the hand8 of the guardian at the time of t 8 rale. ,

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HonorableL. C. Bosvell,page 2

'The intentionof this amendment 

### is to &arify the old statutebut It still does not clearly indioatevhether or not It 14 neoestmry to file a speolalas184bond or merely to file an order of the County Judge approving the guardlan~rgeneral bond vhere it is 

### mrrlolent

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Article 4141, Vernon~s Annotated Civil Btatutea of **Texa8,** require8 **the** 

### guardian **of the**  **ertate** of 8 vard to give a bond **a8** thereinmentioned au **a** quallfioatlonof the guardlM.'

Bowe Bill 482, **Aots** of the 48th Legl4l'ature, Regular g4344lon,

1943, aend- Art1ol.e 4201 and Artiole 4216 V8rnontr AnnotatedCivil statutes of **Texas, r8ads**  **In** part aa rollovat

: "Art. 4201.

aAn order for the sale of real estate shall rtatet
"1. The property to be sold, giring~suoh deaoriptlonof It ad will Idsntffy It.
'2. Whether it Is to be sold at publie auction or at private 881.8, and if at publlo motion, the time end place of suoh aale.
"3. The necearltyand purpose of ruoh eale.
"4. That no sale **of** real estatemade **by** the guardian rball be conflmed, nor ahall title of the ward to euch real estat8 pars to thg pur

### chaser unless **and** until it shall ffrrt be found and determinedby the Court,by an order duly made and entered, ,that the guardIanhas flied a good and auffioientbond in an amount equal to tvioe the amount

### for vhI&.aaid real estate 14 $016, and that the suretI84on 4uch bond are solvent, provided,**however,** that where the aale of such reel eetate 14 made to the owner or holder of’ a secured clslm agelnat the estate, and the322

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49e 14 of the real estate aeourlng such olaim and is in fu21 payment, liquidation,and aatlsr.30ti0n

thereof,orily

the amount 0s Cash, if any, aotuallyreoeivedby auoh guardian in 8~~844 or the amount neoersary to pay, llqufdateand eotlsfy auoh olairn

in-f'ull,

ahall be aonaidersdia pa84lag upon the 8uiriOi=0y 0s the bond aa herelnabove 

### rq,ulred.
45, It ahall require the s&e to be m4d4 and the report th4reor to b4 rqturned 

### to the 

### Courtlt~auoordanos rlth the UW.~

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“At aaj ti4W after the 43Xpi~tiOtt Of fiY4 (5) day8 +rter the rii~,or a report 0s 4al4, the'CoUrt ah811 inquire iato the manner in vhioh au& 4ti8 Va4 llode &Id hear 8YidenC4 in support of or against 4uoh report, and if 4ati4fi8d that rwh 4814 wa4 fairlymad4 and la Onaiosaltyuith lav aud thet the gpardipnha8 an file a good atid suffioikntband in an amount equal to tuioe the valu4 fop vhiOh aald +eal eatat is being sold, and if and when the guardian14ea3.d bond ha4 been examinedby the Couzt and found to be in the amount above requiredvlth good and auPS& oient ruretiba thereon,a4 evidencedby 8n order duly 4md4.

and enteredby th8 Court to that eff%Ot, the Court shall oaure to be entered a deor44 oonfinaingeuoh aale and order the report of 44l4 to be recordedby the Clsrk and the proper con~8yen08of the property sold to be made by the gu%rdlan to the puroha44r,upon cornplianoeby auoh puxwh+servlth the temm of sale, provided,hovever, that Uh8M the 4f&28 Of auoh real 44t&8'%4 &a to the owner or holder of a aeoursd alair againat the estate 'aadthe 4am4 la of tha real estate 44ourS.ng snob olaia and la In full payment, liquidation,and aatisfaction thereof,only the uDount of .caab,if any, actually recieived

by auoh gUaX'di+~

in 4X486% OfHonorableI,.C. Bosv822, Page 4

th8 cuPOuut

ll408448l'y

t0 pay, 2iqtidet9and gatisfy such 02aim in full, shall b8 oonaldered, togethervlth the other property of the estate, 3.n

passing upon the surrioien0y of such 

### bond, Th4 provlelonsof thisAct shall be mandatory and unlese the Court eball Slrat d%t%m.he 

### that the guardl~~a bond 1s adequate and solvent,as 8boYa set forth, as evidenoed by an order tie and entered by the Court to that %ff%Ct, any sale of real eatatehereafter made mder the provirionsOS this Title shall be void; provided, that the provlalonrhereof ahallnot apply to 08881) pending at the time this lav become4 effective

. . . .' .* Prior to the enactmentof House Bill Ho. 482, aupra, . the App82lafe Courta Of this Stat8 haY8 renderedmany opfnions oonstrulngArticlea 4202 and 4226. However,many of these qasea do not pa44 upon the **qU84tiOI.I** Under consideration; moat of them are oau4ea in which the attack on the judgkent of the Probsts Courtwas made oo2laterally,and, Sollowlng the **well-known** ~28, tines4 authoritieshold that the Probate Court is 8 oourt of gene*2 jurisdiction,and that Its judgments are pwsumed to have been properly renderedon sufflclent facts and are not subject to oollatera2attacks. HOY- %Yer, it vas held in American Indwanlty Companyva. Robe1 (TexaaConrmieslon

or Appeals) 235 s.w. 867# thatArticle 4201, prior t0 its aZ?M&dent, rSqUired a lndepend%ntand 48p8r8t% bond S'rm that given a4 a quallSlcationof the guardi,an. It will be noted thatArticle 4201, supra, as amendedby liouse Bill 482, aupra, requires the guardian to file a good and 4urricientbond in in amount equal to tvica the saount for vhich the real estate is sold. (Al40 see the case City of Tyler **V8.~FirSt** RationalSank of Beaumont, et al, 46 S.W. (26) 454).

After carsfullyconsideringBouae Bill 482 and the foregoingauthorities,it is our opinion that it Is necessary for the guardian to file 8 speolal sales bocd in double the amount for vhloh the real estate is sold. In other words a speolal sale bond must be filed in oaaplianoevith said House

### Honoreble L. 0. Bo~vell, 

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Bill& re&wdleas of the

### aamuntof th6generalbond QII filevhen reel estate 

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### the gumdlan.