{"id":295,"date":"2016-08-01T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:45:20","slug":"dissolution-informal-marriage-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In In re Interest of JJFR<\/em>, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner and he\u00a0had entered into an informal marriage<\/a>. In Texas, an informal (or common law) marriage under Texas Family Code \u00a72.401(a)(2) can be proven by using evidence that a man and woman agreed to be married and after agreeing lived in Texas as husband and wife and told others they were married.<\/p>\n

Informal marriages exist only if all three elements are present. Whoever wants to establish that there is an informal marriage needs to prove these elements by a preponderance of the evidence.<\/p>\n

In the current\u00a0case, the woman claimed there was an informal marriage and carried the burden of proof. The appellate court explained they\u00a0could overturn an order on the ground of insufficient evidence only if the findings were so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence they were\u00a0obviously unfair and wrong.<\/p>\n

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

In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner and he\u00a0had entered into an informal marriage. In Texas, an informal (or common law) marriage under Texas Family Code \u00a72.401(a)(2) can be proven by using evidence that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-informal-marriage"],"yoast_head":"\nDissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 1, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner — August 1, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 1, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner — August 1, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kelly McClure\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 1, 2016","description":"In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner — August 1, 2016","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 1, 2016","twitter_description":"In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner — August 1, 2016","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kelly McClure","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/","name":"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 1, 2016","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-08-01T17:45:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d242451d01f4b8ae44c765b4296b15f1"},"description":"In In re Interest of JJFR, a man appealed from the denial of his motion for summary judgment, arguing there was insufficient evidence to prove his partner — August 1, 2016","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/dissolution-informal-marriage-texas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dissolution of an Informal Marriage in Texas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/","name":"Texas Divorce Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Texas Collaborative & Family Attorney \u2014 McClure Law Group","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d242451d01f4b8ae44c765b4296b15f1","name":"Kelly McClure","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f9a434392857fa0f1c071557d1e298705df5691bd0750001911a213a4279014?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f9a434392857fa0f1c071557d1e298705df5691bd0750001911a213a4279014?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kelly McClure"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/kelly-mcclure.html"],"url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/author\/mcclurelaw2\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}