# Texas — Financial power of attorney execution requirements by US state — notary, witnesses, or both, quoted from the state's own statute

For Texas, execution requirement is (4) is acknowledged by the principal or another adult directed by the principal as authorized by Subdivision (2) before an officer authorized under the laws of this state or another state to: (A) take acknowledgments to deeds of conveyance; and (B) administer oaths; statute is Tex. Est. Code § 751.0021, recorded from its source on 2026-09-02.

- **State:** Texas _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Execution requirement:** (4) is acknowledged by the principal or another adult directed by the principal as authorized by Subdivision (2) before an officer authorized under the laws of this state or another state to: (A) take acknowledgments to deeds of conveyance; and (B) administer oaths _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** Tex. Est. Code § 751.0021 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> An instrument is a durable power of attorney for purposes of this subtitle if the instrument: (1) is a writing or other record that designates another person as agent and grants authority to that agent to act in the place of the principal, regardless of whether the term “power of attorney” is used; (2) is signed by an adult principal or in the adult principal's conscious presence by another adult directed by the principal to sign the principal's name on the instrument; (3) contains: (A) the words: (i) “This power of attorney is not affected by subsequent disability or incapacity of the principal”; or (ii) “This power of attorney becomes effective on the disability or incapacity of the principal”; or (B) words similar to those of Paragraph (A) that clearly indicate that the authority conferred on the agent shall be exercised notwithstanding the principal's subsequent disability or incapacity; and (4) is acknowledged by the principal or another adult directed by the principal as authorized by Subdivision (2) before an officer authorized under the laws of this state or another state to: (A) take acknowledgments to deeds of conveyance; and (B) administer oaths.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Statute

> Texas Estates Code - EST § 751.0021. Requirements of Durable Power of Attorney

## Source

- https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/estates-code/est-sect-751-0021/

Last verified: 2026-09-02. Review by: 2028-09-01.
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