{"id":2070,"date":"2021-05-24T08:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2021-05-23T20:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T01:28:22","slug":"trial-or-contested-hearing-required-to-determine-disputed-texas-property-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/trial-or-contested-hearing-required-to-determine-disputed-texas-property-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial or Contested Hearing Required to Determine Disputed Texas Property Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2077 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-483613578\" width=\"2098\" height=\"1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578.jpg 2098w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-1536x1045.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-2048x1394.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-1000x681.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-483613578-176x120.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2098px) 100vw, 2098px\" \/>In a Texas divorce, a jury may decide issues regarding the characterization and valuation of property, but the judge is responsible for actually dividing the community property in a just and right manner. \u00a0The court may consider a number of factors, including fault, education, ages and physical conditions, financial conditions, and the amount of separate property.\u00a0 Generally, the court must hold an evidentiary hearing or trial, unless the parties agree on the property division.<\/p>\n<h2>Wife Argues Trial Court Did Not Hear Property Issues<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fourteenth-court-of-appeals\/2021-14-19-00250-cv.pdf?ts=1620909197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent<\/a> case, a wife appealed a property division, arguing the court failed to hold a hearing on the property division.<\/p>\n<p>The parties married in 2003 and the husband filed for divorce in 2017. The jury did not hear the property division issues, which were reserved for the trial court.\u00a0 The court stated that it would try those issues during the jury deliberations if there was time or would otherwise schedule a date after the verdict on the issues related to the children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/trial-or-contested-hearing-required-to-determine-disputed-texas-property-division\/#more-2070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Texas divorce, a jury may decide issues regarding the characterization and valuation of property, but the judge is responsible for actually dividing the community property in a just and right manner. \u00a0The court may consider a number of factors, including fault, education, ages and physical conditions, financial conditions, and the amount of separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,303,27,206],"tags":[282,5,364,210,139,365,283,328,207],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-evidence","category-property","category-trial","tag-community","tag-divorce-2","tag-error","tag-jury-trial","tag-property","tag-reversal","tag-separate","tag-texas-family-code","tag-trial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trial or Contested Hearing Required to Determine Disputed Texas Property Division &#8212; 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