Sec. 505.003. AUTHORITY OF FOREIGN CORPORATE FIDUCIARY TO SERVE IN FIDUCIARY CAPACITY. (a) Subject to Subsections (b) and (c) and Section 505.004, a foreign corporate fiduciary may be appointed by will, deed, agreement, declaration, indenture, court order or decree, or otherwise and may serve in this state in any fiduciary capacity, including as:
(1) trustee of a personal or corporate trust;
(2) executor;
(3) administrator; or
(4) guardian of the estate.
(b) A foreign corporate fiduciary appointed to serve in a fiduciary capacity in this state must have the corporate power to act in that capacity.
(c) This section applies only to the extent that the home state of the foreign corporate fiduciary appointed to serve in a fiduciary capacity in this state grants to a corporate fiduciary whose home state is this state the authority to serve in like fiduciary capacity.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 2 - Estates of Decedents; Durable Powers of Attorney
Subtitle K - Foreign Wills, Other Testamentary Instruments, and Fiduciaries
Chapter 505 - Foreign Personal Representatives, Trustees, and Fiduciaries
Subchapter A. Foreign Corporate Fiduciary
Section 505.002. Applicability of Other Law
Section 505.003. Authority of Foreign Corporate Fiduciary to Serve in Fiduciary Capacity
Section 505.004. Filing Requirements; Designation
Section 505.005. Service of Notice or Process on Secretary of State