{"id":1568,"date":"2020-04-13T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:00:02","slug":"spousal-maintenance-in-texas-divorce-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/spousal-maintenance-in-texas-divorce-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Spousal Maintenance in Texas Divorce Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Texas divorce, a spouse who cannot support herself or himself because of an incapacitating disability and does not have sufficient property to meet their needs may be eligible for spousal maintenance. Tex. Fam. Code Ann. \u00a7 8.051.\u00a0 Spousal support is generally limited in time, but a court may order spousal maintenance indefinitely to a spouse who is disabled.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code Ann. \u00a7 8.054.\u00a0 There are statutory limits to the amount of spousal maintenance a court can award.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code Ann. \u00a7 8.055.<\/p>\n<p>A husband recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/second-court-of-appeals\/2020-02-19-00132-cv.pdf?ts=1586531757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> an award of spousal maintenance to the wife.\u00a0 He filed for divorce after the couple had been married for more than 18 years.\u00a0 The wife filed a counterpetition and sought spousal maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>At trial, the wife testified she owned as separate property a house she received in a previous divorce.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0She expected to receive $96,000 in proceeds from its sale to put toward buying a new home.\u00a0 She testified she would \u201cbarely have enough to pay for [the new] house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/spousal-maintenance-in-texas-divorce-cases\/#more-1568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Texas divorce, a spouse who cannot support herself or himself because of an incapacitating disability and does not have sufficient property to meet their needs may be eligible for spousal maintenance. 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Code Ann. \u00a7 8.051.\u00a0 Spousal support is generally limited in time, but a court may order spousal maintenance indefinitely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alimony","category-spousal-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spousal Maintenance in Texas Divorce Cases &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; April 13, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a Texas divorce, a spouse who cannot support herself or himself because of an incapacitating disability and does not have sufficient property to meet &#8212; April 13, 2020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/spousal-maintenance-in-texas-divorce-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Spousal Maintenance in Texas Divorce Cases &#8212; 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