{"id":1314,"date":"2019-07-17T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:30:44","slug":"texas-court-may-not-ignore-stipulations-in-property-division-in-a-divorce-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-may-not-ignore-stipulations-in-property-division-in-a-divorce-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court May Not Ignore Stipulations in Property Division in a Divorce Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, a trial court in a Texas divorce case has the discretion to divide marital assets.\u00a0 A trial court can, however, abuse its discretion if it divides property without reference to guiding rules or principles and without evidence to support the ruling.\u00a0 An appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/second-court-of-appeals\/2019-02-17-00451-cv.pdf?ts=1559315872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently<\/a> found that a trial court abused its discretion by mischaracterizing separate property as community property and improperly divesting the husband of his separate property.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties had been married previously, and both asserted throughout the trial that they had separate property.\u00a0 They each pled and testified that they had separate property and submitted documentation showing they had separate property.\u00a0 Additionally, each submitted sworn inventories and filed proposed property divisions admitting the other party had separate property.\u00a0 Neither party ever disputed or contested the other\u2019s claims. There were only two disputed issues before the court at the time of the trial:\u00a0 how to divide the wife\u2019s retirement account and whether there were any reimbursement claims against the separate property.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court, however, issued a letter ruling dividing all of the assets as though they were community property, despite the various agreements, stipulations, and uncontested submissions.\u00a0 The husband moved for reconsideration, and the wife filed a short response in opposition.\u00a0 The appeals court noted she had received the majority of the husband\u2019s separate property under the letter ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-may-not-ignore-stipulations-in-property-division-in-a-divorce-case\/#more-1314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, a trial court in a Texas divorce case has the discretion to divide marital assets.\u00a0 A trial court can, however, abuse its discretion if it divides property without reference to guiding rules or principles and without evidence to support the ruling.\u00a0 An appeals court recently found that a trial court abused its discretion by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Court May Not Ignore Stipulations in Property Division in a Divorce Case &#8212; 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