ONE-YEAR LIMITATIONS PERIOD. Declaratory judgments play a big role in determining the duty to defend in that insurers frequently initiate declaratory judgments to resolve duty to defend.The stated purpose of the Texas Uniform. Declaratory Judgments Act ("TUDJA" or the "Act") is. On the other hand, at least one court has refused to construe art. 21.42 as a limitation on the cases to which Texas law can apply. Texas also has a fouryear statute of limitations for lawsuits involving contractual obligations. Mascio, 2015 Colo. Dist. --The filing of such affidavit shall have the effect of tolling the statute of limitations as to the affiant with respect to the claim at issue. Declaratory judgment action, absent appropriate prayers for specific equitable relief, is itself but an action at law.