§ 98C.007.Cause of Action Cumulative

One sentence closing the chapter: the cause of action is cumulative of any other remedy provided by common law or statute.

Unqualified, so the claim stacks with anything else that applies.

The overlapping remedies are numerous. Defamation reaches false statements attributed to the claimant. Misappropriation of name or likeness is the common law privacy tort covering exactly this conduct. The intimate visual material chapter covers impersonation that is sexual in character, and the stalking chapter reaches impersonation used as part of a campaign of harassment.

Penal Code Section 33.07 makes online impersonation a criminal offence, running alongside this civil claim.

Choosing among them turns on the remedies. This chapter offers a $500 exemplary damages floor and two-way fees; the intimate visual material chapter offers one-way fees, per-violation injunction damages, and a ten-year limitations period; defamation offers neither but has no intent-to-harm element and no requirement that the impersonation be "virtually indistinguishable" from a real person.

The cumulative provision means a claimant need not choose in advance, which matters given how demanding this chapter's two elements are.