PJC Business 2024

PJC 115.15

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Statutory remedies. Under appropriate circumstances, the court may— 1. compel a trustee to perform the trustee’s duties; 2. enjoin the trustee from committing a breach of trust; 3. compel the trustee to redress a breach of trust; 4. order a trustee to account; 5. 7. remove the trustee, as provided by Tex. Prop. Code § 113.082; 8. reduce or deny compensation to the trustee; 9. void an act of the trustee, impose a lien or a constructive trust on trust property, or trace trust property of which the trustee wrongfully disposed and recover the property or the proceeds from the property; or 10. “order any other appropriate relief.” Tex. Prop. Code § 114.008(a); see also Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code ch. 64. Profit disgorgement, fee forfeiture. See PJC 115.16 and 115.17. Actual and exemplary damages. In a proper case, in addition to equitable relief, the plaintiff may also recover actual and exemplary damages caused by the fiduciary’s breach. Manges v. Guerra , 673 S.W.2d 180, 184–85 (Tex. 1984), superseded by statute on other grounds ; see also Cantu v. Butron , 921 S.W.2d 344, 351–53 (Tex. App.— Corpus Christi–Edinburg 1996, writ denied). See PJC 115.18 (actual damages for breach of fiduciary duty) and 115.37 and 115.38 (exemplary damages). appoint a receiver to take possession of the trust property and administer the trust; 6. suspend the trustee;

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