{"id":2759,"date":"2023-10-06T23:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2023-11-20T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:57:08","slug":"texas-court-may-clarify-ambiguous-property-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-may-clarify-ambiguous-property-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court May Clarify Ambiguous Property Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once its plenary power has expired, a trial court cannot change the substantive property division stated in a final Texas divorce decree.\u00a0 It does, however, retain the power to clarify or enforce that property division.\u00a0 A Qualified Domestic Relations Order (\u201cQDRO\u201d) is a post-divorce enforcement order and therefore cannot change the property division.\u00a0 A QDRO can, however, specify how the property division can be carried out, without altering the substantive property division. If the QDRO substantively alters the property division, then it is void and may be amended to comport with the division in the decree.\u00a0 A wife recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/eleventh-court-of-appeals\/2023-11-22-00201-cv.pdf?ts=1696508678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> a clarification order addressing the division of the husband\u2019s 401(k).<\/p>\n<p>According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion, the parties executed a mediated settlement agreement (\u201cMSA\u201d) that incorporated a spreadsheet dividing the marital estate.\u00a0 That spreadsheet indicated the parties would each receive half of $92,916.50 from the 401(k).<\/p>\n<p>The final decree incorporated the MSA by reference and ordered the parties \u201cto do all things necessary to effectuate\u201d it.\u00a0 The decree awarded the husband the entire balance of the 401(k) \u201cas reflected on [the spreadsheet]\u201d except for the part awarded to the wife by the decree.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-may-clarify-ambiguous-property-division\/#more-2759\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once its plenary power has expired, a trial court cannot change the substantive property division stated in a final Texas divorce decree.\u00a0 It does, however, retain the power to clarify or enforce that property division.\u00a0 A Qualified Domestic Relations Order (\u201cQDRO\u201d) is a post-divorce enforcement order and therefore cannot change the property division.\u00a0 A QDRO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Court May Clarify Ambiguous Property Division &#8212; 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