Texas Insurance Code - INS § 885.304. Beneficiaries

(a) The owner of a benefit contract may change the beneficiary at any time in accordance with a fraternal benefit society's laws or rules unless the owner waives that right by specifically requesting in writing that the beneficiary designation be irrevocable.

(b) A fraternal benefit society may, through the fraternal benefit society's laws or rules, limit the scope of beneficiary designations and shall provide that a person whose designation as a beneficiary is revocable may not have or obtain a vested interest in the proceeds, in conformity with the benefit contract.

(c) If, at the death of an insured, a lawful beneficiary to whom the proceeds of the benefit contract are payable does not exist under the benefit contract, a fraternal benefit society shall pay the amount of the benefit under the benefit contract:

(d) Subsection (c) does not apply to the extent funeral benefits may be paid under the benefit contract.