{"id":2965,"date":"2025-01-06T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:15:31","slug":"texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-award-to-disabled-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-award-to-disabled-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Affirms Spousal Maintenance Award to Disabled Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court may award Texas spousal maintenance in a divorce case if the spouse seeking maintenance meets the statutory requirements.\u00a0 Generally, a spouse seeking maintenance must show that they lack sufficient property to provide for their own minimum reasonable needs and meet one of the other statutory conditions, including being unable to earn sufficient income due to an incapacitating disability.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 8.051.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinimum reasonable needs\u201d is not defined in the Texas Family Code.\u00a0 The court therefore has the discretion to determine a party\u2019s minimum reasonable needs based on the facts and circumstances of the case.\u00a0 Courts consider expenses including housing, clothing, and transportation. A former husband recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/seventh-court-of-appeals\/2025-07-24-00127-cv.pdf?ts=1735911928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> the divorce decree that ordered him to pay spousal maintenance, arguing the wife had not proven her minimum reasonable needs.<\/p>\n<p>The parties got married in Australia in 2009 and subsequently moved to Texas.\u00a0 Although the husband had a high-paying job, the wife only earned up to $10.50 per hour.\u00a0 She had significant mental and physical health issues that resulted in her unemployment in 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-affirms-spousal-maintenance-award-to-disabled-spouse\/#more-2965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court may award Texas spousal maintenance in a divorce case if the spouse seeking maintenance meets the statutory requirements.\u00a0 Generally, a spouse seeking maintenance must show that they lack sufficient property to provide for their own minimum reasonable needs and meet one of the other statutory conditions, including being unable to earn sufficient income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,4,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alimony","category-divorce","category-spousal-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Affirms Spousal Maintenance Award to Disabled Spouse &#8212; 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