{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-112.001","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Property Code § 112.001","heading":"METHODS OF CREATING TRUST.","body":"A trust may be created by:\n(1) a property owner's declaration that the owner holds the property as trustee for another person;\n(2) a property owner's inter vivos transfer of the property to another person as trustee for the transferor or a third person;\n(3) a property owner's testamentary transfer to another person as trustee for a third person;\n(4) an appointment under a power of appointment to another person as trustee for the donee of the power or for a third person; or\n(5) a promise to another person whose rights under the promise are to be held in trust for a third person.\nAmended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3332, ch. 567, art. 2, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.","path":["PROPERTY CODE","TITLE 9. TRUSTS","SUBTITLE B. TEXAS TRUST CODE: CREATION, OPERATION, AND TERMINATION OF TRUSTS","CHAPTER 112. CREATION, VALIDITY, MODIFICATION, AND TERMINATION OF TRUSTS","SUBCHAPTER A. CREATION"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.112.htm#112.001","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:37Z","sha256":"bf77ee16340aefcc4e6c2df460751a672891452530ed6a46e71a79e872adfc57","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-111.006","next":"us-tx/tex.-property-code-112.002"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}