{"id":3041,"date":"2025-07-08T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:05:22","slug":"texas-appeals-court-affirms-appointment-of-receiver-for-former-wife-to-collect-2011-arkansas-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-affirms-appointment-of-receiver-for-former-wife-to-collect-2011-arkansas-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Affirms Appointment of Receiver for Collection of Divorce Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a party to a Texas divorce may have difficulty collecting what has been awarded to them. Pursuant to the Texas turnover statute, a judgment creditor may ask the court to assist them in reaching the judgment debtor\u2019s non-exempt property.\u00a0 The court is authorized to take a number of actions, including appointing a receiver. Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code \u00a7 31.002.\u00a0 Appointment of a receiver is considered an \u201cextraordinary remedy\u201d and should not occur if there is a lesser remedy available. Gilbreath v. Horan. <\/em>\u00a0Although a receiver may be appointed in a divorce case, the turnover statute is not limited to divorce cases.\u00a0 In a recent<\/a> case, a former wife requested a receiver to satisfy a judgment against her former husband following his divorce from his second wife.<\/p>\n

According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion, the former husband remarried after the parties\u2019 divorce in 2011.\u00a0 He and his second wife divorced in 2018.\u00a0 The first wife argued the property division in the husband\u2019s second divorce constituted a fraudulent transfer to the second wife to avoid debts he owed the first wife.<\/p>\n

The parties divorced in Arkansas in 2011.\u00a0 The husband was ordered to pay $250,223 to a business and $8,000 to the first wife for attorney\u2019s fees.\u00a0 According to the first wife, she sought garnishment against multiple banks in February 2018 and was awarded $70,000 in one of those actions, partly based on her sole ownership of the business.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes a party to a Texas divorce may have difficulty collecting what has been awarded to them. Pursuant to the Texas turnover statute, a judgment creditor may ask the court to assist them in reaching the judgment debtor\u2019s non-exempt property.\u00a0 The court is authorized to take a number of actions, including appointing a receiver. Tex. 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