MANAGEMENT BY DECREE
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Byrd v. Woodruff (1994)
Most recently applied in 784 F. Supp. 2d 694 - ACS Recovery Services, Inc. v. Griffin (March 2011)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3711, ch. 576, Sec. 1, 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) In a suit in which a minor or incapacitated person who has no legal guardian is represented by a next friend or an appointed guardian ad litem, the court, on application and hearing, may provide by decree for the investment of funds accruing to the minor or other person under the judgment in the suit.
(b) If the decree is made during vacation, it must be recorded in the minutes of the succeeding term of the court.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.