Texas Insurance Code 1579.006 – Exemption From Process
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(a) The following are exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, or any other process:
(1) benefit payments, including optional benefit payments;
(2) contributions of active employees, the state, and a participating entity, and any other contributions;
(3) any rights, benefits, or payments accruing to any person under this chapter; and
(4) any money in the Texas school employees uniform group coverage trust fund.
(b) The items listed in Subsection (a) may not be assigned except for direct payment to benefit providers as authorized by the trustee by contract, rule, or otherwise.
Terms Used In Texas Insurance Code 1579.006
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.