STAY OF RELATED PROCEEDING
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case In Re Merrill Lynch Trust Co. FSB (2007)
Most recently applied in Fineman, Krekstein, & Harris, P.C. v. Perr, R. (June 2022)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 5.01, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The court shall stay a proceeding that involves an issue subject to arbitration if an order for arbitration or an application for that order is made under this subchapter.
(b) The stay applies only to the issue subject to arbitration if that issue is severable from the remainder of the proceeding.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.