{"id":1086,"date":"2018-08-15T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:38:48","slug":"proving-separate-property-in-a-commingled-account-in-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/proving-separate-property-in-a-commingled-account-in-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Proving Separate Property in a Commingled Account in Texas Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property possessed by either party at the time of a Texas divorce is presumed to be community property.\u00a0 To show that property was instead separate, the presumption must be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence.\u00a0 If the assets were not maintained separately from community assets, they must be traced back to separate property by showing the origin of the property.\u00a0 Income earned during the marriage is also community property.<\/p>\n<p>A wife <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/sixth-court-of-appeals\/2018-06-18-00020-cv.pdf?ts=1533217594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently challenged<\/a> a court\u2019s finding that a down payment made from her savings account was made with community funds.\u00a0 After six years of marriage, the parties filed for divorce.\u00a0 In the wife\u2019s counter petition, she sought reimbursement to her separate estate for assets she alleged were spent for the benefit of the community estate.<\/p>\n<p>At the hearing, the husband sought half the equity in the marital home and community funds he alleged the wife had deposited into her checking account and given to her adult child. The parties agreed on the value of the home and the amount of the down payment.\u00a0 The husband admitted the down payment had come from the wife\u2019s savings account, but argued that it came from community property funds that had been commingled into the wife\u2019s savings account.\u00a0 He testified that she deposited her paychecks into her checking account and transferred funds to the savings account.\u00a0\u00a0 He testified the savings account had $162,168.61 at the time of the marriage.\u00a0 The bank records showed $282,847.69 was in the account before the withdrawal for the down payment.\u00a0\u00a0 The husband also testified he had given his wife cash to pay the utilities and half of the mortgage payment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/proving-separate-property-in-a-commingled-account-in-texas-divorce\/#more-1086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property possessed by either party at the time of a Texas divorce is presumed to be community property.\u00a0 To show that property was instead separate, the presumption must be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence.\u00a0 If the assets were not maintained separately from community assets, they must be traced back to separate property by showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-property-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Proving Separate Property in a Commingled Account in Texas Divorce &#8212; 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