{"id":1325,"date":"2019-07-31T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:38:41","slug":"court-must-assign-value-to-lease-in-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/court-must-assign-value-to-lease-in-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Must Assign Value to Lease in Texas Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial court in a Texas divorce must divide community property in a just and right manner.\u00a0 Property can be somewhat broadly defined as it relates to property division in a divorce case.\u00a0 Many people do not realize that a lease of someone else\u2019s property is subject to division in a divorce, unless the lease is shown to be separate property.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent case, the wife <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/first-court-of-appeals\/2019-01-17-00969-cv.pdf?ts=1560255328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> a property division that did not include a recreational lease held by the husband.\u00a0 The wife appealed the property division, arguing error in the trial court\u2019s division of property.\u00a0 She argued the court failed to include a recreational lease in the community estate and that the court unfairly allocated the husband\u2019s tax debt.\u00a0 The court had allocated all of the tax debt to the husband, but the wife argued the court erred in using it to offset the value of the assets awarded to the husband.<\/p>\n<p>At trial, there was evidence the husband signed a written lease for a ranch during the marriage.\u00a0 The husband\u2019s friend owned the property and testified the husband had helped him build or enhance some of the improvements on the property.\u00a0 The owner testified he would sell the ranch to the husband for a significant discount and indicated he would extend the lease to the husband indefinitely as long as he paid the rent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/court-must-assign-value-to-lease-in-texas-divorce\/#more-1325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial court in a Texas divorce must divide community property in a just and right manner.\u00a0 Property can be somewhat broadly defined as it relates to property division in a divorce case.\u00a0 Many people do not realize that a lease of someone else\u2019s property is subject to division in a divorce, unless the lease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","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 v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court Must Assign Value to Lease in Texas Divorce &#8212; 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