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Construction & Payment Disputes
The Texas Construction Trust Fund Act: Misapplied Payments and Personal Liability
Construction payments in Texas are trust funds for the subs and suppliers on that job. A contractor, or its officers, who spends them elsewhere first can be personally liable.
Construction & Payment Disputes
The Texas Prompt Payment Act: Interest and Deadlines on Construction Payments
On private Texas projects an owner pays within 35 days, a contractor pays subs within seven days, late amounts earn 1.5 percent a month, and work may stop after notice.
Construction & Payment Disputes
The Texas Residential Construction Liability Act: Notice Before Suing a Builder
Sixty days' certified-mail notice, an inspection and a repair offer come before any suit over a defect in a Texas home. Without them the suit is abated or recovery capped.
Securities & Investment Disputes
The Texas Securities Act: Claims by Investors and Defenses
The Texas Securities Act lets a buyer rescind or recover damages for sales by untrue statements or without registration, with no proof of intent required.
Business Fraud & Fiduciary Duty
The Texas Theft Liability Act in Business Disputes
The Act turns Penal Code theft into a civil claim with mandatory attorney's fees for whoever wins, including the defendant. Powerful on strong facts, costly on weak ones.
Trade Secrets, Trademarks & IP
The Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Explained
TUTSA is the Texas statute that defines misappropriation, allows injunctions and damages, permits fee awards in defined cases, and makes courts protect the secret during the suit.
Trade Secrets, Trademarks & IP
Unfair Competition and Misappropriation Claims in Texas
In Texas, unfair competition is an umbrella, not a freestanding claim. You need an underlying wrong: passing off, misappropriation, false advertising or interference.
Securities & Investment Disputes
Unsuitable Investments and Churning: Claims Against Brokers
A broker needs a reasonable basis to believe each recommendation, and the trading pattern as a whole, fits the customer. Both claims are proved from the account records.
Securities & Investment Disputes
Was the Investment an Unregistered Security? Rescission in Texas
If the deal was a security sold in Texas without registration or a valid exemption, the buyer may rescind and recover the price with interest, with no misstatement required.