Legal Opinion
Rsl Funding, LLC and Rsl Special-Iv Limited Partnership v. Rickey Newsome
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 21, 2018No. 16-0998PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Devine
The Structured Settlement Protection Act requires court approval to validate the transfer of a payee's structured-settlement-payment rights to another. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE § 141.004. The court here approved the transfer but did so in two different orders, creating a dispute between the parties over which order should control. One of the parties moved to compel arbitration of this dispute and others under an arbitration provision included in their transfer agreement. The trial court denied the motion, and the court of appeals affirmed, concluding that the dispute over which order…
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