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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Estates Code § 1353.101: GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL OF COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATOR.

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  1. ESTATES CODE
  2. TITLE 3. GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES
  3. SUBTITLE I. OTHER SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS AND SUBSTITUTES FOR GUARDIANSHIP
  4. CHAPTER 1353. MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF INCAPACITATED SPOUSE'S PROPERTY
  5. SUBCHAPTER C. REMOVAL OR TERMINATION OF POWERS OF COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATOR

A court may remove a community administrator if:

(1) the community administrator fails to comply with a court order for:

(A) an inventory and appraisement under Section 1353.051; or

(B) an account or subsequent account under Section 1353.052;

(2) sufficient grounds appear to support belief that the community administrator has misapplied or embezzled, or is about to misapply or embezzle, all or part of the property committed to the community administrator's care;

(3) the community administrator is proved to have been guilty of gross misconduct or gross mismanagement in the performance of duties as community administrator; or

(4) the community administrator:

(A) becomes an incapacitated person;

(B) is sentenced to the penitentiary; or

(C) for any other reason becomes legally incapacitated from properly performing the community administrator's fiduciary duties.

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:08Z. Source file · JSON

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