Sec. 121.055.  EXEMPTION FROM TAXES AND DEBTS.  Unless the trust agreement, declaration of trust, or will provides otherwise, a death benefit payable to a trustee under this subchapter is not:
(1)  part of the deceased employee's estate;
(2)  subject to the debts of the deceased employee or the employee's estate, or to other charges enforceable against the estate;  or
(3)  subject to the payment of taxes enforceable against the deceased employee's estate to a greater extent than if the death benefit is payable, free of trust, to a beneficiary other than the executor or administrator of the estate of the employee.
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3694, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.