Texas § ES.360.153 - PARTITION BY COMMISSIONERS
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§ ES.360.153. PARTITION BY COMMISSIONERS
PARTITION BY COMMISSIONERS. (a) The commissioners shall make a fair, just, and impartial partition and distribution of the estate in the following order and manner: (1) if the real estate is capable of being divided without manifest injury to all or any of the distributees, the commissioners shall partition and distribute the land or other property by allotting to each distributee: (A) a share in each parcel; (B) shares in one or more parcels; or (C) one or more parcels separately, with or without the addition of a share of other parcels; (2) if the real estate is not capable of a fair, just, and equal division in kind, but may be made capable of a fair, just, and equal division in kind by allotting to one or more of the distributees a proportion of the money or other personal property to supply the deficiency, the commissioners may make, as nearly as possible, an equal division of the real estate and supply the deficiency of any share from the money or other personal property; and (3) the commissioners shall: (A) make a like division in kind, as nearly as possible, of the money and other personal property; and (B) determine by lot, among equal shares, to whom each share shall belong. (b) The commissioners shall allot the land or other property under Subsection (a)(1) in the manner described by that subsection that is most in the interest of the distributees. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502 ), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
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Section ES.360.153 ("PARTITION BY COMMISSIONERS") is part of the The Texas Constitution, the codified statutory law of Texas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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