Tex. Estates Code § 1104.001
This is the official text of Tex. Estates Code § 1104.001, part of Texas’s Estates Code — governs wills, probate, and estate administration.
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§ 1104.001. GUARDIAN OF THE PERSON OR ESTATE.
Official statutory text
(a) Only one person may be appointed as guardian of the person or estate, but one person may be appointed guardian of the person and another person may be appointed guardian of the estate, if it is in the best interest of the incapacitated person or ward.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the joint appointment, if the court finds it to be in the best interest of the incapacitated person or ward, of:
(1) a husband and wife;
(2) joint managing conservators;
(3) co-guardians appointed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state; or
(4) both parents of an adult who is incapacitated if the incapacitated person:
(A) has not been the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; or
(B) has been the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship and both of the incapacitated person's parents were named as joint managing conservators in the suit but are no longer serving in that capacity.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the joint appointment, if the court finds it to be in the best interest of the incapacitated person or ward, of:
(1) a husband and wife;
(2) joint managing conservators;
(3) co-guardians appointed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state; or
(4) both parents of an adult who is incapacitated if the incapacitated person:
(A) has not been the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; or
(B) has been the subject of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship and both of the incapacitated person's parents were named as joint managing conservators in the suit but are no longer serving in that capacity.
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