{"id":3069,"date":"2025-08-22T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:44:01","slug":"real-estate-lost-separate-property-character-when-transferred-to-business-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/real-estate-lost-separate-property-character-when-transferred-to-business-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Lost Separate Property Character When Transferred to LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real estate investments can lead to complex issues for property division in a Texas divorce, especially if there are co-owners or business entities involved.\u00a0 A former husband recently challenged<\/a> the property division in his divorce, which characterized certain property as his wife\u2019s separate property and awarded his father-in-law a 50% interest in a piece of real estate.<\/p>\n

The parties moved to Texas from the U.K., intending to purchase real estate in Austin.\u00a0 In 2018, the wife\u2019s parents gave her about \u00a3250,000, documented as a gift in a letter.\u00a0 The wife put \u00a3214,000, which totaled a little over $248,000, into a joint account.\u00a0 The funds were used for 97.19% of the purchase price of a property identified by the court as \u201cthe Webberville property.\u201d\u00a0 The purchase and deed were in only the husband\u2019s name based on advice from an immigration attorney.<\/p>\n

The parties purchased \u201cthe Gunter property\u201d with the wife\u2019s father in late 2019.\u00a0 They did not have a written contract regarding the co-ownership, but the wife\u2019s father testified they agreed he would put 50% down and own 50% of the property.\u00a0 He had signed a letter in November of that year, however, stating the funds he put toward the purchase were a gift with no expectation of repayment. The husband told him having only the couple on the title would facilitate the purchase, but he would amend it to add the wife\u2019s father.\u00a0 The father was not added, but the husband did give him property and loss statements for the property and pay him $14,000 as his share of the rental income.<\/p>\n

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Real estate investments can lead to complex issues for property division in a Texas divorce, especially if there are co-owners or business entities involved.\u00a0 A former husband recently challenged the property division in his divorce, which characterized certain property as his wife\u2019s separate property and awarded his father-in-law a 50% interest in a piece of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-entities","category-divorce"],"yoast_head":"\nReal Estate Lost Separate Property Character When Transferred to LLC — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — August 22, 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Real estate investments can lead to complex issues for property division in a Texas divorce, 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