1 EXHIBIT 3.2 SECOND AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST OF AMRESCO CAPITAL TRUST AMRESCO Capital Trust, a real estate investment trust under the Texas Real Estate Investment Trust Act, as amended (the "Texas REIT Act"), hereby adopts the following Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of AMRESCO Capital Trust, recorded in the Dallas County Clerk's Office on February 3, 1998 as Document No. 30979, Vol. 98022, Page 00055, as amended by First Amendment to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust as recorded in the Dallas County Clerk's Office on May 5, 1998 as Document No. 130686, Vol. 98087, Page 00145. ARTICLE 1. The name of the real estate investment trust is AMRESCO Capital Trust. ARTICLE 2. Article IV of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust is replaced in its entirety by the following: ARTICLE IV The names and business mailing addresses of the Trust Managers are as follows: NAME MAILING ADDRESS Robert L. Adair III AMRESCO, Inc. 700 North Pearl Street Suite 2400, LB 342 Dallas, Texas 75201-7424 Robert H. Lutz, Jr. AMRESCO, Inc. 700 North Pearl Street Suite 2400, LB 342 Dallas, Texas 75201-7424 Mark D. Gibson Holiday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. 8750 North Central Expressway Suite 950 Dallas, Texas 75231-6428 James C. Leslie The Staubach Company 6750 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1100 Dallas, Texas 75240 2 Christopher Leinberger Robert Charles Lesser & Company 142 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 501 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 Bruce W. Duncan The Cadillac Fairview Corporation, Ltd. 20 Queen Street West Toronto, Ontario M5H 3R4 John Deterding Deterding Associates 107 North Waterview Richardson, Texas 75080 ARTICLE 3. The Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust was approved by the Sole Shareholder effective as of May 9, 1998. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereby executes this Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust effective as of the 9th day of May, 1998. AMRESCO CAPITAL TRUST By: /s/ MICHAEL L. McCOY ----------------------------------- Michael L. McCoy Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATE OF TEXAS ) ) COUNTY OF DALLAS ) On May 18th, 1998, before me, the undersigned Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified within and for the State and County aforesaid, personally came and appeared Michael L. McCoy, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of AMRESCO Capital Trust. Witness my hand and official seal. /s/ PATTI WOMACK ----------------------------------- [SEAL] ----------------------------------- NOTARY PUBLIC 3