§ 65.002.Restraining Order or Injunction Affecting Customer of Financial Institution

The same redirection the attachment and garnishment chapters make, applied to injunctive relief.

Service or delivery of a restraining order or injunction affecting property held by a financial institution in the name of or on behalf of a customer is governed by Section 59.008, Finance Code.

The provision covers a real and common situation. An order freezing a party’s accounts binds the party, but it is the bank that must stop honouring instructions — and the bank needs to know.

That provision routes service to one place — a registered address or a designated officer — instead of any branch that happens to receive it.

Without centralisation an order served at one branch would purport to bind an institution with hundreds, none of which knew of it.

"Service or delivery" is wider than the other chapters’ wording, and the addition matters here — an injunction is often communicated rather than formally served, and this covers both.

The provision reaches a restraining order as well as an injunction, which is the more urgent case: a temporary restraining order is granted quickly, often ex parte, and its effect depends on the bank learning of it at once.

Property held "in the name of or on behalf of a customer" covers trust and agency accounts as well as accounts in the customer’s own name.

All four routes to a bank-held asset now run through the same provision — attachment, garnishment, turnover receivership, and injunction — which is what allows an institution to have one process for all of them.