§ 64.001.Availability of Remedy

The availability provision, and it ends with a clause that keeps the list from being a limit.

A court of competent jurisdiction may appoint a receiver in an action by a vendor to vacate a fraudulent purchase; by a creditor to subject property or a fund to the creditor’s claim; between partners or others jointly owning or interested in property or a fund; by a mortgagee for foreclosure and sale; for an insolvent corporation, one in imminent danger of insolvency, dissolved, or having forfeited its corporate rights; and in any other case in which a receiver may be appointed under the rules of equity.

That last item is the widest. The enumerated cases are the familiar ones; equity supplies the rest, which is why receiverships appear in contexts the list never mentions.

The subdivision numbered (6) appears TWICE, and both texts are law. Two 2025 bills each added a subdivision to the list without accounting for the other — one for a single-source continuum contractor under the Family Code, the other for an action by the attorney general under the Property Code. The code prints both and labels each as separately added.

Subsections (b) and (c) attach conditions to four of the grounds.

For the vendor, creditor and joint-ownership cases, the applicant must have a probable interest in or right to the property and the property must be in danger of being lost, removed, or materially injured.

For the mortgagee case, a receiver may be appointed only if the property is in danger of being lost, removed, or materially injured, or the condition of the mortgage has not been performed and the property is probably insufficient to discharge the debt.

Subsection (d) is a different remedy in the same section. A family law or probate court may appoint a receiver for a missing person where the estate is in danger of injury, loss, or waste and is in need of a representative — with its own subchapter of procedure.