{"id":2720,"date":"2023-07-17T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T02:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:33:34","slug":"texas-appeals-court-upholds-post-divorce-enforcement-clarification-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-post-divorce-enforcement-clarification-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Upholds Post-Divorce Enforcement\/Clarification Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas divorce decree that is final and unambiguous and addresses all of the marital property may not be re-litigated.\u00a0 The court may, however, enforce the property division or enter a clarifying order if the decree is ambiguous.\u00a0 The trial court may not, however, amend, modify or change the substantive property division once its plenary power has expired. A husband recently challenged an enforcement\/clarification order requiring him to sign certain documents and extending the time the wife had to refinance the home.<\/p>\n<p>According to the appeals court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/eighth-court-of-appeals\/2023-08-22-00218-cv.pdf?ts=1689423632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion<\/a>, the parties got divorced in August 2021.\u00a0 Pursuant to the agreed judgment, the wife was awarded the marital home, contingent on refinancing.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0She was required to pay the husband $75,000 within 15 days of refinancing the note.\u00a0 If she failed to refinance by February 1, 2022, then the home was to be listed with a real estate broker with experience in the area and sold at a mutually agreed-upon priced.\u00a0 The wife would keep 52% of the net proceeds and the husband would get the other 48%.<\/p>\n<p>The wife was ordered to execute a deed of trust to secure owelty of partition and a lien note.\u00a0 The husband was ordered to execute a warranty deed.\u00a0 These documents were to be signed by 5:00 p.m. on the date the trial court signed the agreed divorce decree.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-post-divorce-enforcement-clarification-order\/#more-2720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas divorce decree that is final and unambiguous and addresses all of the marital property may not be re-litigated.\u00a0 The court may, however, enforce the property division or enter a clarifying order if the decree is ambiguous.\u00a0 The trial court may not, however, amend, modify or change the substantive property division once its plenary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enforcement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Upholds Post-Divorce Enforcement\/Clarification Order &#8212; 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