{"id":1270,"date":"2019-04-05T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:23:28","slug":"texas-divorce-court-may-correct-clerical-error-with-judgment-nunc-pro-tunc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-divorce-court-may-correct-clerical-error-with-judgment-nunc-pro-tunc\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Divorce Court May Correct Clerical Error with Judgment Nunc Pro Tunc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes courts make mistakes.\u00a0 When a Texas divorce court makes a clerical error, the court has the power to correct that error for a period of time, generally within 30 days.\u00a0 If the error is not corrected before the court\u2019s plenary power to correct has expired, it may still be corrected by a judgment nunc pro tunc. The court may only correct a clerical error through a judgment nunc pro tunc and cannot use a judgment nunc pro tunc to correct a judicial error.<\/p>\n<p>A husband <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/thirteenth-court-of-appeals\/2019-13-17-00217-cv.pdf?ts=1553775403\">recently challenged<\/a> a judgment nunc pro tunc on the grounds that the alleged error in the original judgment was not a clerical error.\u00a0 The parties had each signed the decree and approved it in form and substance, but the wife\u2019s attorney approved it as to form only.\u00a0 The divorce court and all parties also signed another document, the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO), that awarded 35 percent of the husband\u2019s military retirement pay to the wife.\u00a0 The divorce decree did not reflect this award.<\/p>\n<p>The husband petitioned the court to amend the QDRO to match the decree, arguing the QDRO was an impermissible modification of the property division.\u00a0 The wife argued its omission was a clerical error in the divorce decree and that the decree was ambiguous.\u00a0 The husband argued the divorce court did not have subject matter jurisdiction to modify the decree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-divorce-court-may-correct-clerical-error-with-judgment-nunc-pro-tunc\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Texas Divorce Court May Correct Clerical Error with Judgment Nunc Pro Tunc\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes courts make mistakes.\u00a0 When a Texas divorce court makes a clerical error, the court has the power to correct that error for a period of time, generally within 30 days.\u00a0 If the error is not corrected before the court\u2019s plenary power to correct has expired, it may still be corrected by a judgment nunc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Divorce Court May Correct Clerical Error with Judgment Nunc Pro Tunc &#8212; 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