{"id":3025,"date":"2025-06-30T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:48:39","slug":"texas-home-confirmed-wifes-separate-property-despite-deed-granting-interest-to-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-home-confirmed-wifes-separate-property-despite-deed-granting-interest-to-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Home Confirmed Wife&#8217;s Separate Property Despite Deed Granting Interest to Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property characterization can be a significant area of contention in Texas divorces, particularly in high net worth divorces or those in which one party entered the marriage with significantly more assets.\u00a0 Texas law presumes that property possessed by either spouse during or on dissolution is community property.\u00a0 That presumption may be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence the property is separate. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 3.003. Property conveyed by one spouse to the other is generally presumed to be a gift. \u00a0Clear and convincing evidence the conveying spouse did not intend to gift the property is needed to rebut the gift presumption.\u00a0 A former husband recently challenged characterization of the marital residence as the wife\u2019s separate property despite execution of a general warranty deed granting him an undivided one-half interest.<\/p>\n<p>The parties got married in 2001 and the wife petitioned for divorce in 2021. The trial court found the marital home was the wife\u2019s separate property.\u00a0 According to the appeals court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fourteenth-court-of-appeals\/2025-14-24-00301-cv.pdf?ts=1749734016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion<\/a>, she bought it two years before the marriage and refinanced it in 2003.\u00a0 She also signed a general warranty deed that granted the husband an undivided half interest. The court found the wife did not intend to gift the property to the husband and provided an alternate reason for executing the warranty deed.\u00a0 The court also found refinancing had not changed the property\u2019s character.\u00a0 The trial court awarded the wife conditional appellate attorney\u2019s fees if the husband appealed to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Texas and the wife \u201csubstantially prevail[ed].]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The husband appealed the home\u2019s characterization and the conditional appellate attorney\u2019s fees award.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-home-confirmed-wifes-separate-property-despite-deed-granting-interest-to-husband\/#more-3025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property characterization can be a significant area of contention in Texas divorces, particularly in high net worth divorces or those in which one party entered the marriage with significantly more assets.\u00a0 Texas law presumes that property possessed by either spouse during or on dissolution is community property.\u00a0 That presumption may be rebutted by clear and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,189,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-gifts","category-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Home Confirmed Wife&#039;s Separate Property Despite Deed Granting Interest to Husband &#8212; 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