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Tex Limitation Periods Civil Practice And Remedies Code Chapter 16 deadline questions
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Does moving to Texas create a twelve-month deadline for an existing demand?
A conditional twelve-month residence protection, subject to subsections (a) and (b)
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Does Texas impose a universal ninety-day contractual notice deadline?
A reasonable stipulated notice period, generally subject to the ninety-day validity minimum and express exceptions
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Does Texas’s two-year contractual minimum set a deadline from contract formation?
A generally applicable two-year minimum for the contractual period’s validity, with the subsection (b) exception
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How does death suspend a Texas limitations clock?
Suspension for up to twelve months, with restart at an earlier representative qualification
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How does Texas assess twenty-five years of possession under a recorded instrument?
Twenty-five years of qualifying possession before commencement, subject to the statutory conditions
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How does Texas’s design-professional construction period work?
Ordinarily ten years, with the separate government branch and timely written-claim relief
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What does a timely written claim change for a Texas design-professional suit?
Two years from presentation under subsection (a), or one year under subsection (a-1), subject to timely presentation
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What must a Texas written survey-error claim establish before presentation-based relief applies?
Two years from qualifying timely presentation, assessed with the original period and other limitations
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What must occur within Texas’s real-property power-of-sale period?
Actual sale within four years after applicable accrual, subject to statutory maturity and extension conditions
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When does a Texas residential warranty select six years instead of ten?
Six years only for the qualifying written-warranty branch, with the remaining section 16.009 conditions
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When does Texas construction harm during the last repose year permit two years after accrual?
Two years after accrual only when the stated last-year harm condition is satisfied
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When does Texas suspend limitations after a jurisdictional dismissal and refiling?
Second commencement within sixty days after finality as a condition of the stated between-filings suspension
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When does Texas’s eight-year government construction branch apply?
Eight years under subsection (a-1), subject to the specified project exclusions and remaining section 16.009 provisions
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When does Texas’s eight-year government design-professional branch apply?
Eight years under subsection (a-1), with its excluded projects and conditional one-year written-claim relief
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When does Texas’s five-year adverse-possession recovery limitation apply?
5 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When does Texas’s residual four-year limitation apply?
4 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When does Texas’s ten-year adverse-possession recovery limitation apply?
10 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When does Texas’s twenty-five-year recovery limitation apply despite disability?
25 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When must a covered Texas account or partnership-settlement action be brought?
4 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When must a covered Texas defamation or malicious-prosecution suit be brought?
1 calendar year after the independently established statutory event
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When must a suit to set aside a Texas Subchapter E tax seizure sale be brought?
1 calendar year after the independently established statutory event
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When must a Texas action for injury resulting in death be brought?
2 calendar years after the independently established statutory event
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When must a Texas cotenant heir oppose another heir’s adverse-possession claim?
Opposition by the fifth anniversary of the qualifying affidavit filing, with separate statutory prerequisites
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When must a Texas debt, fraud or listed four-year action be brought?
4 calendar years after the independently established statutory event