Tex. Property Code § 64.058
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 64.058, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 64.058. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS GENERALLY.
Official statutory text
Unless otherwise agreed, an assignee who collects rents under this chapter or collects on a judgment in an action under Section 64.060 shall apply the sums collected in the following order to:
(1) reimbursement of the assignee's expenses of enforcing the assignee's assignment of rents, including, to the extent provided for by agreement by the assignor and not prohibited by a law of this state other than this chapter, reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred by the assignee;
(2) reimbursement of any expenses incurred by the assignee to protect or maintain the real property that is subject to the assignment of rents;
(3) payment of the secured obligation;
(4) payment of any obligation secured by a subordinate security interest or other lien on the rents if, before distribution of the proceeds, the assignee receives a signed notice from the holder of the interest or lien demanding payment of the proceeds; and
(5) payment of any excess proceeds to the assignor.
(1) reimbursement of the assignee's expenses of enforcing the assignee's assignment of rents, including, to the extent provided for by agreement by the assignor and not prohibited by a law of this state other than this chapter, reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred by the assignee;
(2) reimbursement of any expenses incurred by the assignee to protect or maintain the real property that is subject to the assignment of rents;
(3) payment of the secured obligation;
(4) payment of any obligation secured by a subordinate security interest or other lien on the rents if, before distribution of the proceeds, the assignee receives a signed notice from the holder of the interest or lien demanding payment of the proceeds; and
(5) payment of any excess proceeds to the assignor.
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