Tex. Prop. Code § 114.002 · Subchapter A. LIABILITY OF TRUSTEE
LIABILITY OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE FOR BREACH OF TRUST BY PREDECESSOR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A successor trustee is liable for a breach of trust of a predecessor only if he knows or should know of a situation constituting a breach of trust committed by the predecessor and the successor trustee:
(1) improperly permits it to continue;
(2) fails to make a reasonable effort to compel the predecessor trustee to deliver the trust property; or
(3) fails to make a reasonable effort to compel a redress of a breach of trust committed by the predecessor trustee.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3332, ch. 567, art. 2, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.114.htm
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