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Divorcing parties sometimes agree to hang on to property for some time following the divorce.\u00a0 Sometimes, they want to allow the children to remain in the home.\u00a0 Sometimes, they want to make repairs to increase the property\u2019s value.\u00a0 Texas divorce attorneys know that there can be a lot of conflict prior to the sale of the property.\u00a0 In a recent case<\/a>, a Texas appeals court considered whether a former husband had a fiduciary duty to protect his former wife\u2019s interest in the property they owned together.<\/p>\n

The divorce decree ordered the parties to list the property for sale and to split the proceeds equally.\u00a0 The wife moved to enforce the decree nearly 12 years later.\u00a0 She claimed the husband failed to comply with the decree and failed to cooperate with selling the property.\u00a0 She asked for clarification of any part of the decree the court found was not specific enough to enforce by contempt.\u00a0 She also brought a breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim against him.<\/p>\n

The wife argued the parties had agreed not to sell the property until the children graduated from high school.\u00a0 She alleged her husband had willfully withheld the proceeds of an insurance claim for damage to the house.\u00a0 She also claimed he had forged her name on an insurance check that was made payable to both of them and that she had to sue him to get half of the proceeds.\u00a0 She claimed she was unable to pay for repairs to the property because the husband had withheld the proceeds.\u00a0 The wife was ultimately charged for demolition of the house after the city condemned the property.<\/p>\n

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Divorcing parties sometimes agree to hang on to property for some time following the divorce.\u00a0 Sometimes, they want to allow the children to remain in the home.\u00a0 Sometimes, they want to make repairs to increase the property\u2019s value.\u00a0 Texas divorce attorneys know that there can be a lot of conflict prior to the sale of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property"],"yoast_head":"\nFormer Spouses Are Generally Not Fiduciaries in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — May 24, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divorcing parties sometimes agree to hang on to property for some time following the divorce.\u00a0 Sometimes, they want to allow the children to remain in the — May 24, 2018\" 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