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\"iStock-1183385986-scaled\"A court may order Texas spousal maintenance if the spouse requesting it is not able to earn enough to provide for their own minimum reasonable needs due to an incapacitating disability. The incapacitating disability may be either physical or mental.\u00a0 <\/span>Tex. Fam. Code 8.051.\u00a0 <\/span>A former husband recently challenged<\/a> a spousal-maintenance award, arguing that the former wife had not shown her disability was “incapacitating.”<\/p>\n

Husband Files for Divorce<\/h3>\n

The couple separated in September 2016 and the husband petitioned for divorce in 2018.\u00a0 <\/span>At trial, the wife testified she had fallen down the stairs in April 2016.<\/p>\n

The wife testified she had lost her vision for several days as a result of the fall. She also experienced seizures.\u00a0 <\/span>She was in the hospital for several days and was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury with severe memory loss.\u00a0 <\/span>She said she had difficulty with words and processing things.\u00a0 <\/span>She testified she recently started regaining her memory and taught herself to read again.\u00a0 <\/span>She also testified her short-term memory had gotten better than it had been.\u00a0 <\/span>She admitted that she could currently drive and do math with a calculator.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A court may order Texas spousal maintenance if the spouse requesting it is not able to earn enough to provide for their own minimum reasonable needs due to an incapacitating disability. The incapacitating disability may be either physical or mental.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. 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