ESTATES CODE
TITLE 3. GUARDIANSHIP AND RELATED PROCEDURES
SUBTITLE E. ADMINISTRATION OF GUARDIANSHIP
CHAPTER 1164. LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN OR GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM
Sec. 1164.001. LIABILITY OF GUARDIAN. A person is not liable to a third person solely because the person has been appointed guardian of a ward under this title.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.
Sec. 1164.002. IMMUNITY OF GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM. A guardianship program is not liable for civil damages arising from an action taken or omission made by a person while providing guardianship services to a ward on behalf of the guardianship program, unless the action or omission was:
(1) wilfully wrongful;
(2) taken or made:
(A) with conscious indifference to or reckless disregard for the safety of the ward or another;
(B) in bad faith; or
(C) with malice; or
(3) grossly negligent.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 823 (H.B. 2759), Sec. 1.02, eff. January 1, 2014.