Texas Property Code 121.055 – Exemption From Taxes and Debts
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Terms Used In Texas Property Code 121.055
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Unless the trust agreement, declaration of trust, or will provides otherwise, a death benefit payable to a trustee under this subchapter is not:
(1) part of the deceased employee’s estate;
(2) subject to the debts of the deceased employee or the employee’s estate, or to other charges enforceable against the estate; or
(3) subject to the payment of taxes enforceable against the deceased employee’s estate to a greater extent than if the death benefit is payable, free of trust, to a beneficiary other than the executor or administrator of the estate of the employee.