{"id":2483,"date":"2022-09-10T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:27:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:27:45","slug":"mischaracterization-of-property-in-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/mischaracterization-of-property-in-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischaracterization of Property in Texas Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"property-division-300x110\"The court in a Texas divorce must make a just and right division of the parties\u2019 estate.\u00a0 This does not necessarily require the court to award\u00a0 the parties equal shares of the property.\u00a0 Property acquired during a marriage is generally community property, but property acquired before the marriage or by gift, devise, or descent is separate property. A party claiming separate property must show that it is separate by clear and convincing evidence.\u00a0 A husband recently challenged<\/a> a court\u2019s characterization of certain property as the wife\u2019s separate property.<\/p>\n

The parties got married in 1997 and the husband filed for divorce in 2019.\u00a0 Each party sought a disproportionate share of the marital estate.<\/p>\n

Wife Asserts Separate-Property Claim<\/h3>\n

According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion, a significant issue in the divorce was property purchased by the wife in 1997 after the marriage.\u00a0 She leased the building in 1990 and renewed the lease in 1995. After the marriage, she bought it.\u00a0 She testified the written lease she signed in 1995 gave her an option to purchase, but she had lost the document.<\/p>\n

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

The court in a Texas divorce must make a just and right division of the parties\u2019 estate.\u00a0 This does not necessarily require the court to award\u00a0 the parties equal shares of the property.\u00a0 Property acquired during a marriage is generally community property, but property acquired before the marriage or by gift, devise, or descent is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-property","category-separate-property"],"yoast_head":"\nMischaracterization of Property in Texas Divorce — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — September 10, 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The court in a Texas divorce must make a just and right division of the parties\u2019 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