Sec. 112.001. METHODS OF CREATING TRUST    


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  • A trust may be created by:

    (1) a property owner's declaration that the owner holds the property as trustee for another person;

    (2) a property owner's inter vivos transfer of the property to another person as trustee for the transferor or a third person;

    (3) a property owner's testamentary transfer to another person as trustee for a third person;

    (4) an appointment under a power of appointment to another person as trustee for the donee of the power or for a third person; or

    (5) a promise to another person whose rights under the promise are to be held in trust for a third person.

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