Sec. 82.002.  DISCHARGE OF LIABILITY.  (a)  A payment or refund made by an employer or trustee under a written employee benefit plan to a person described by Subsection (b) fully discharges the employer or trustee from all adverse claims against the payment or refund unless, before making the payment, the employer or trustee receives a notice that some other person claims to be entitled to all or part of the payment or refund.
(b)  Subsection (a) applies to a payment to:
(1)  an employee;
(2)  a former employee;
(3)  an employee's or former employee's beneficiary, heir, or legatee;  or
(4)  a representative of an employee's or former employee's estate.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 9.19(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.