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In a Texas divorce, the court may, in its discretion, award spousal maintenance to a spouse who will not have enough property after the divorce to provide for his or her own minimum reasonable needs and meets one of the other enumerated conditions in the statute.\u00a0 One of those conditions is the inability to earn sufficient income to provide for minimum reasonable needs due to an incapacitating physical or mental disability.\u00a0 The determination of disability may be supported solely by the spouse\u2019s testimony if it is sufficient and probative to establish there is a disability that prevents the spouse from becoming gainfully employed.<\/p>\n

In a recent case<\/a>, a husband challenged a spousal maintenance award by arguing there was insufficient factual and legal support for the award.\u00a0 The husband filed for divorce after about 14 years of marriage.\u00a0 The wife filed a counter petition and sought a disproportionate share of community property and spousal maintenance.\u00a0 The husband had agreed to pay $1,875 per month in spousal maintenance temporarily as part of the mediated settlement agreement.<\/p>\n

At trial, the wife testified about a number of health conditions, including deteriorated discs in her back and neck, vertigo, diabetes, depression, and arthritis.\u00a0 She testified that she was 64 years old and had not worked in almost 20 years, since her neck surgery.\u00a0 She further testified she was unable to go back to work due to back and neck conditions.\u00a0 She submitted medical records from her treating neurologist documenting some of her conditions, symptoms, and medications.<\/p>\n

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In a Texas divorce, the court may, in its discretion, award spousal maintenance to a spouse who will not have enough property after the divorce to provide for his or her own minimum reasonable needs and meets one of the other enumerated conditions in the statute.\u00a0 One of those conditions is the inability to earn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce"],"yoast_head":"\nProving Disability for Texas Spousal Maintenance — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 5, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a Texas divorce, the court may, in its discretion, award spousal maintenance to a spouse who will not have enough property after the divorce to provide — June 5, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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