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CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE

CHAPTER 32. CONTRIBUTION


	§ 32.001. APPLICATION.  (a) This chapter applies only to 
tort actions.    
	(b)  This chapter does not apply if a right of contribution, 
indemnity, or recovery between defendants is provided by other 
statute or by common law.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 32.002. RIGHT OF ACTION.  A person against whom a 
judgment is rendered has, on payment of the judgment, a right of 
action to recover payment from each codefendant against whom 
judgment is also rendered.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 32.003. RECOVERY.  (a) The person may recover from each 
codefendant against whom judgment is rendered an amount determined 
by dividing the number of all liable defendants into the total 
amount of the judgment.
	(b)  If a codefendant is insolvent, the person may recover 
from each solvent codefendant an amount determined by dividing the 
number of solvent defendants into the total amount of the judgment.
	(c)  Each defendant in the judgment has a right to recover 
from the insolvent defendant the amount the defendant has had to pay 
because of the insolvency.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.