{"id":2361,"date":"2022-03-02T07:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2022-02-27T22:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T04:16:47","slug":"texas-appeals-court-finds-wife-did-not-convert-inheritance-to-community-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-finds-wife-did-not-convert-inheritance-to-community-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Finds Wife Did Not Convert Inheritance to Community Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1406 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2018_10_agreement-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"2018_10_agreement-300x165\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2018_10_agreement-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2018_10_agreement-218x120.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2018_10_agreement.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In Texas, separate property can be converted to community property by a written agreement signed by both spouses that identifies the property to be convert and specified it is being converted to community property. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 4.203.\u00a0 In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/third-court-of-appeals\/2022-03-20-00465-cv.pdf?ts=1645709248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent<\/a> case, a former husband challenged the property division in his divorce decree, arguing certain assets had been improperly characterized as the wife\u2019s separate property.<\/p>\n<p>The wife was beneficiary of three irrevocable trusts set up by her grandparents.\u00a0 The income from the trusts was to be distributed to the wife at least annually starting when she turned 21.\u00a0 The trustee was also authorized to distribute principal for the wife\u2019s care, comfort, support, and education if the trustee deemed it necessary. When she turned 32, the trustee had the discretion to distribute the balance.\u00a0 After the wife\u2019s thirty-second birthday, which occurred during the marriage, the trustee terminated the trusts and put the accounts in her name.\u00a0 They were worth about $2.3 million at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The parties hired an estate-planning attorney.\u00a0 They both signed an engagement letter, stating they told the attorney they considered the current assets, specifically including the funds inherited by the wife, to be community property. The trust agreement stated that the trustors contemplated that all assets that would be transferred to the trust would be community property. However, it also included a provision allowing either party to modify, revoke, or terminate the agreement with respect to any of their own separate property held in the trust. They subsequently transferred the assets from the grandparents\u2019 trusts to the new trust account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-finds-wife-did-not-convert-inheritance-to-community-property\/#more-2361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Texas, separate property can be converted to community property by a written agreement signed by both spouses that identifies the property to be convert and specified it is being converted to community property. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 4.203.\u00a0 In a recent case, a former husband challenged the property division in his divorce decree, arguing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,86],"tags":[263,227,495,494,350,319,19,87,71,493,318],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-property","category-separate-property","tag-agreement","tag-community-property","tag-conversion","tag-convert","tag-family-code","tag-husband","tag-inheritance","tag-separate-property","tag-texas","tag-trust","tag-wife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Finds Wife Did Not Convert Inheritance to Community Property &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; 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