2017 Texas Statutes
ESTATES CODE
TITLE 3 - GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES
SUBTITLE E - ADMINISTRATION OF GUARDIANSHIP
CHAPTER 1164 - LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN OR GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM
ESTATES CODE
TITLE 3. GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES
SUBTITLE E. ADMINISTRATION OF GUARDIANSHIP
CHAPTER 1164. LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN OR GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM
Sec. 1164.001. LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN. A person is not liable to a third person solely because the person has been appointed guardian of a ward under this title.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.
Sec. 1164.002. IMMUNITY OF GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM. A guardianship program is not liable for civil damages arising from an action taken or omission made by a person while providing guardianship services to a ward on behalf of the guardianship program, unless the action or omission was:
(1) wilfully wrongful;
(2) taken or made:
(A) with conscious indifference to or reckless disregard for the safety of the ward or another;
(B) in bad faith; or
(C) with malice; or
(3) grossly negligent.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.
