{"id":2543,"date":"2022-12-27T18:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2022-12-11T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:39:42","slug":"disability-can-be-established-through-lay-testimony-in-texas-spousal-maintenance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/disability-can-be-established-through-lay-testimony-in-texas-spousal-maintenance-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Can Be Established Through Lay Testimony in Texas Spousal Maintenance Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iStock-545456068-300x184\"A Texas court may award spousal maintenance in certain circumstances, including when a spouse lacks sufficient property to provide for their reasonable minimum needs and is unable to earn enough income to provide for those minimum reasonable needs due to an incapacitating disability.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 8.051.\u00a0 Spousal support is generally limited based on the length of the marriage, but may be indefinite while the spouse is unable to support himself or herself because of a disability.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 8.054(b).<\/p>\n

A husband recently challenged a spousal maintenance award.\u00a0 According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion<\/a>, the parties had been married for about eight years and had a child together when the husband filed for divorce.\u00a0 The wife requested spousal maintenance.<\/p>\n

Evidence Presented at Trial Regarding Spousal-Maintenance Request<\/h3>\n

The wife, the husband, and the husband\u2019s mother all testified at trial.\u00a0 The wife testified about her work history, educational background, and health issues.\u00a0 She testified that she received daily dialysis, which required her to be connected to a machine for as much as 10 hours.\u00a0 She could, however, do the dialysis at home where she could move around the house and care for the child.<\/p>\n

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

A Texas court may award spousal maintenance in certain circumstances, including when a spouse lacks sufficient property to provide for their reasonable minimum needs and is unable to earn enough income to provide for those minimum reasonable needs due to an incapacitating disability.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 8.051.\u00a0 Spousal support is generally limited based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,4,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alimony","category-divorce","category-spousal-support"],"yoast_head":"\nDisability Can Be Established Through Lay Testimony in Texas Spousal Maintenance Case — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — December 27, 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Texas court may award spousal maintenance in certain circumstances, including when a spouse lacks sufficient property to provide for their reasonable — December 27, 2022\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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