Texas does not impose a state inheritance or estate tax. Most of its laws surrounding inheritance are straightforward.
However, if your father is reported to have died intestate, i.e., without a will, the distribution of his assets will be left up to the state’s intestate succession process.
Estates with no will or a will that has not been probated by the Texas courts within four years of the deceased’s death can be inherited via the use of an affidavit of heirship. Someone with knowledge of the decedent and his or her family, as well as a public notary, must sign the document to transfer the estate to the decedent’s heirs at law
Biological children of the decedent and his or her spouse hold some of the strongest inheritance rights to an intestate will’s property.
In turn, an intestate will, because it has little to no pre-specified direction, is inherited by some combination of the deceased’s spouse, children and/or relatives. To differentiate between your belongings and whom they should go to, Texas divides them into community property and separate property.
The properties left behind by your deceased father, who is reported to have died intestate shall devolve on the successors in interest/ surviving legal heirs as per the law of inheritance of the law applicable to law where the property is situated.
You may ask/request your sister to express no objection to your inheritance of the property by compensating her with the consideration amount equal to the value of her share in the property.