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Tex. Prop. Code § 113.051 (2026)

General Duty

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Sec. 113.051. GENERAL DUTY. The trustee shall administer the trust in good faith according to its terms and this subtitle. In the absence of any contrary terms in the trust instrument or contrary provisions of this subtitle, in administering the trust the trustee shall perform all of the duties imposed on trustees by the common law.

Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3332, ch. 567, art. 2, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 148 (H.B. 1190), Sec. 13, eff. January 1, 2006.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 20 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1994–2025 · leading case: Texas Com. Bank, N.A. v. Grizzle Ex Rel. Grizzle, 96 S.W.3d 240 (Tex. 2002).
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Texas Com. Bank, N.A. v. Grizzle Ex Rel. Grizzle, 96 S.W.3d 240 (Tex. 2002). “Tex. Prop.Code § 113.051. 38 . Id. § 113.”
Alpert v. Gerstner, 232 S.W.3d 117 (Tex. App. 2006). “— Corpus Christi 1994, writ denied) (noting duty of good faith, fan dealing, loyalty, and fidelity over trust’s affairs and its principal); TEX. PROP. CODE ANN. § 113.051 (Vernon Supp.”
Alpert v. Riley, 274 S.W.3d 277 (Tex. App. 2009). “BlacK’s Law DiCtionary 1546 (8th ed.2004) (explaining characteristics of various trusts); see also Pickelner, 229 S.”
Aubrey v. Aubrey, 523 S.W.3d 299 (Tex. App. 2017). “see Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 113.051 (West 2014); (8) “[Trustee] has breached her fiduciary duty, she has been caught, self-dealing and she is willfully ignoring the law and must be removed from the Trust *303 for ■ her violations of Prop.”
Faulkner v. Bost, 137 S.W.3d 254 (Tex. App. 2004). “Tex. PROP. Code Ann. § 113.051 (Vernon 1995).”
Brownsville-Valley Reg'l Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Gamez, 894 S.W.2d 753 (Tex. 1995). “See Tex.PROp.Code § 113.051. The trial court’s order requiring Gamez to oversee the trust is unnecessary because if the trustee fails to administer the trust according to its terms, or if it does so in a negligent manner, it will be liable to Diana for breach of its fiduciary…”
Martin v. Martin, 363 S.W.3d 221 (Tex. App. 2012). · cites it 2× “TEX. PROP.CODE ANN. §§ 113.051, 113.056(a) (West 2007).”
Tomlinson v. Tomlinson, 960 S.W.2d 337 (Tex. App. 1998). “Tex. Prop. Code Ann. § 113.051 (Vernon 1995).”
Est. of Proctor v. Comm'r, 67 T.C.M. 2943 (Tax Ct. 1994). “Texas law incorporates the common law duties of a trustee where there is no specific statutory provision governing the trustee's conduct.”
Robert Darrell Tolar v. Darbie D. Tolar, Seagrid Ann Howe & Tia Jo Vanschoyck (Tex. App. 2015). · cites it 2× “See TEX. PROP. CODE ANN. § 113.051. There is nothing in the trust instrument requiring Darbie to correct flaws in the attempted initial conveyance.”
in the Matter of Bumstead Fam. Irrevocable Trust (Tex. App. 2022). “” TEX. PROP. CODE ANN. § 113.051. Trustees “owe beneficiaries ‘a fiduciary duty of full disclosure of all material facts known to them that might affect [the beneficiaries’] rights.”
In the Matter of Trust a & Trust C. Established Under the Bernard L. & Jeannette Fenenbock Living Trust Agreement, Dated March 12, 2008 v. The State of Texas (Tex. 2024). “See TEX. PROP. CODE § 113.051. Based on the arguments made thus far in this case, we see no reason why the probate court should or could require the shares to be transferred back to the 16 Sub-Trusts when the trust agreement required that they be transferred to Glenna’s Trust…”
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