{"id":3004,"date":"2025-05-08T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:48:31","slug":"texas-appeals-court-upholds-award-of-husbands-retirement-despite-premarital-agreement-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-award-of-husbands-retirement-despite-premarital-agreement-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Upholds Award of Husband&#8217;s Retirement Despite Premarital Agreement Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spouses can agree to change their rights and obligations with regard to property by signing a Texas pre-marital agreement. Premarital agreements, also known as prenuptial agreements, are often used in circumstances involving a high net worth or where one spouse enters the marriage with significantly more assets than the other.\u00a0 While prenuptial agreements can be valuable tools to protect a spouse\u2019s assets, they can also be contentious in the event of a divorce.<\/p>\n<p>A husband recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/first-court-of-appeals\/2025-01-23-00087-cv.pdf?ts=1745326248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> the property division in his divorce decree, arguing the trial court had not followed the premarital agreement in dividing the parties\u2019 property.<\/p>\n<p>Before the marriage, the parties executed a premarital agreement the husband bought online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-award-of-husbands-retirement-despite-premarital-agreement-terms\/#more-3004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spouses can agree to change their rights and obligations with regard to property by signing a Texas pre-marital agreement. Premarital agreements, also known as prenuptial agreements, are often used in circumstances involving a high net worth or where one spouse enters the marriage with significantly more assets than the other.\u00a0 While prenuptial agreements can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prenuptial-agreement","category-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Upholds Award of Husband&#039;s Retirement Despite Premarital Agreement Terms &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; May 8, 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spouses can agree to change their rights and obligations with regard to property by signing a Texas pre-marital agreement. 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