Texas Estates Code 1353.102 – Procedure for Removal of Community Administrator
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(a) A court may remove a community administrator on the court’s own motion or on the motion of an interested person, after the community administrator has been cited by personal service to answer at a time and place specified in the notice.
(b) The removal order must:
(1) state the cause of removal; and
(2) direct the disposition of the assets remaining in the name or under the control of the removed community administrator.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 1353.102
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Court: means and includes:
(1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.007 - Estate: means a decedent's property, as that property:
(1) exists originally and as the property changes in form by sale, reinvestment, or otherwise;
(2) is augmented by any accretions and other additions to the property, including any property to be distributed to the decedent's representative by the trustee of a trust that terminates on the decedent's death, and substitutions for the property; and
(3) is diminished by any decreases in or distributions from the property. See Texas Estates Code 22.012 - Person: includes a natural person and a corporation. See Texas Estates Code 22.027
(c) A community administrator who defends an action for the removal of the community administrator in good faith, regardless of whether successful, is entitled to recover from the incapacitated spouse’s part of the community estate the community administrator’s necessary expenses and disbursements in the removal proceedings, including reasonable attorney’s fees.