{"id":1195,"date":"2018-12-31T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:00:57","slug":"gift-presumption-in-texas-property-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/gift-presumption-in-texas-property-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Presumption in Texas Property Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple purchasing a home together generally does not consider how that property will be divided in the event of their divorce.\u00a0 When courts divide marital property in Texas divorce cases, there is a presumption that a spouse who uses separate funds to acquire property during the marriage and titles it in the name of both spouses intends to gift half of the separate funds to the other spouse.\u00a0 The purchasing spouse can, however, rebut this presumption with evidence clearly establishing he or she had no intention to gift the funds.<\/p>\n<p>A wife recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/third-court-of-appeals\/2018-03-17-00690-cv.pdf?ts=1545226610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> a property division that awarded 50% of a house to the husband despite unequal separate-property contributions.\u00a0 The wife had contributed nearly $65,000 to the purchase of the house, while the husband contributed $8,650.\u00a0 The title to the property was in both spouses\u2019 names.<\/p>\n<p>In its findings of fact and conclusions of law, the trial court found the wife failed to present clear and convincing evidence that would overcome the presumption she intended to give 50% of her separate property interest in the marital home to her husband.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/gift-presumption-in-texas-property-division\/#more-1195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple purchasing a home together generally does not consider how that property will be divided in the event of their divorce.\u00a0 When courts divide marital property in Texas divorce cases, there is a presumption that a spouse who uses separate funds to acquire property during the marriage and titles it in the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gift Presumption in Texas Property Division &#8212; 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