CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE

CHAPTER 32. CONTRIBUTION


	§ 32.001.  APPLICATION.  (a)  This chapter applies only 
to tort actions.  
	(b)  This chapter does not apply if a right of contribution, 
indemnity, or recovery between defendants is provided by other 
statute or by common law.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 32.002.  RIGHT OF ACTION.  A person against whom a 
judgment is rendered has, on payment of the judgment, a right of 
action to recover payment from each codefendant against whom 
judgment is also rendered.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 32.003.  RECOVERY.  (a)  The person may recover from 
each codefendant against whom judgment is rendered an amount 
determined by dividing the number of all liable defendants into the 
total amount of the judgment.
	(b)  If a codefendant is insolvent, the person may recover 
from each solvent codefendant an amount determined by dividing the 
number of solvent defendants into the total amount of the judgment.
	(c)  Each defendant in the judgment has a right to recover 
from the insolvent defendant the amount the defendant has had to pay 
because of the insolvency.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.