A joint owner or claimant of real property or an interest in real property or a joint owner of personal property may compel a partition of the interest or the property among the joint owners or claimants under this chapter and the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.
Tex. Prop. Code § 23.001
PARTITION
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case Laster v. First Huntsville Properties Co. (1992)
Most recently applied in Carter v. Harvey (June 2017)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3513, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
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