(a) This section applies only to:
(1) a filing by a guardian whose ward is a beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs of:
- (A) an annual or other account of funds; or
- (B) an application for the expenditure or investment of funds; or
- (2) a filing of a claim against the estate of a ward who is a beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- (b) The court shall set a date for a hearing of a matter initiated by a filing to which this section applies not earlier than 20 days from the date of the filing.
- (c) Not later than the fifth day after the date of a filing to which this section applies, the person who makes the filing shall give notice of the date of the filing by mailing a certified copy of the filing to the office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in whose territory the court is located.
- (d) An office of the Department of Veterans Affairs through its attorney may waive the service of notice or the time required for setting a hearing under this section.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.