Section 101.001 - Passage of Estate on Decedent's Death(a) Subject to Section 101.051, if a person dies leaving a lawful will: (1) all of the person's estate that is devised by the will vests immediately in the devisees;(2) all powers of appointment granted in the will vest immediately in the donees of those powers; and(3) all of the person's estate that is not devised by the will vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.(b) Subject to Section 101.051, the estate of a person who dies intestate vests immediately in the person's heirs at law.Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/2014.