Sec. 361.052. REMOVAL WITH NOTICE. The court may remove a personal representative on the court's own motion, or on the complaint of any interested person, after the representative has been cited by personal service to answer at a time and place fixed in the notice, if:
(1) sufficient grounds appear to support a belief that the representative has misapplied, embezzled, or removed from the state, or is about to misapply, embezzle, or remove from the state, all or part of the property entrusted to the representative's care;
(2) the representative fails to return any account required by law to be made;
(3) the representative fails to obey a proper order of the court that has jurisdiction with respect to the performance of the representative's duties;
(4) the representative is proved to have been guilty of gross misconduct, or mismanagement in the performance of the representative's duties;
(5) the representative:
(A) becomes incapacitated;
(B) is sentenced to the penitentiary; or
(C) from any other cause, becomes incapable of properly performing the duties of the representative's trust; or
(6) the representative, as executor or administrator, fails to:
(A) make a final settlement by the third anniversary of the date letters testamentary or of administration are granted, unless that period is extended by the court on a showing of sufficient cause supported by oath; or
(B) timely file the affidavit or certificate required by Section 308.004.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
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