{"id":2904,"date":"2024-10-27T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:22:25","slug":"inherited-property-in-a-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/inherited-property-in-a-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband&#8217;s Inherited Home Confirmed as Separate Property Not Subject to Division in Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court in a Texas divorce case must divide the parties\u2019 estate in a just and right manner. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 7.001. Complex estates may include both community and separate property, acquired from various sources.\u00a0 The court can only divide community property, which is any property acquired by a spouse during the marriage except separate property.\u00a0 Separate property includes property owned by the spouse before the marriage and property acquired by a spouse during the marriage through gift, devise, or descent.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 3.001(2).\u00a0 There is a presumption property either spouse possesses during or on dissolution of the marriage is community property and a spouse claiming property is separate has the burden of proof to a clear and convincing standard. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 3.003.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/seventh-court-of-appeals\/2024-07-24-00052-cv.pdf?ts=1729676067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case<\/a>, a former wife appealed the court\u2019s property division in the final divorce decree. The parties got married in 1999 and had one child. The husband petitioned for divorce in 2017. He asked the court to confirm two pieces of real property were his separate property.\u00a0 The wife sought reimbursement to and reconstitution of the community estate and spousal maintenance.\u00a0 The court filed the final divorce decree in January 2024 and the wife appealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Separate Property<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On appeal, the wife challenged the trial court\u2019s characterization of the \u201c69<sup>th<\/sup> Street property\u201d as the husband\u2019s separate property.\u00a0 She argued the husband had not presented sufficient evidence to support his testimony that he had inherited it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/inherited-property-in-a-texas-divorce\/#more-2904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court in a Texas divorce case must divide the parties\u2019 estate in a just and right manner. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 7.001. Complex estates may include both community and separate property, acquired from various sources.\u00a0 The court can only divide community property, which is any property acquired by a spouse during the marriage except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-property","category-separate-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Husband&#039;s Inherited Home Confirmed as Separate Property Not Subject to Division in Divorce &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; October 27, 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The court in a Texas divorce case must divide the parties\u2019 estate in a just and right manner. 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