{"id":2764,"date":"2023-10-20T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2023-11-20T06:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:57:31","slug":"no-violation-of-due-process-based-on-emails-with-the-court-after-texas-divorce-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/no-violation-of-due-process-based-on-emails-with-the-court-after-texas-divorce-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"No Violation of Due Process Based on Emails with the Court after Texas Divorce Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution prohibit the state from depriving a person of a liberty interest without due process of law.\u00a0 Case law has established that parental rights are fundamental liberty interests.\u00a0 Due process generally requires that a person be given a meaningful opportunity to be heard.\u00a0 A mother recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/eighth-court-of-appeals\/2023-08-23-00042-cv.pdf?ts=1697546614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed<\/a> her divorce decree, arguing she was deprived of her due process when the court accepted evidence after trial but before entering the final decree.<\/p>\n<p>According to the appeals court, the child was born in March 2020 and the father filed for divorce the following August. In its ruling, the trial court named the parties joint managing conservators and awarded the father the exclusive right to designate the child\u2019s primary residence within two counties. The final decree divided the marital estate, awarding the father $104,738.93 and the mother $69,825.95 from the sale of the home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due Process Claims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mother appealed, arguing the trial court violated her due process rights by accepting certain evidence after the trial.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/no-violation-of-due-process-based-on-emails-with-the-court-after-texas-divorce-trial\/#more-2764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution prohibit the state from depriving a person of a liberty interest without due process of law.\u00a0 Case law has established that parental rights are fundamental liberty interests.\u00a0 Due process generally requires that a person be given a meaningful opportunity to be heard.\u00a0 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,303,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-evidence","category-trial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Violation of Due Process Based on Emails with the Court after Texas Divorce Trial &#8212; 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