{"id":3134,"date":"2025-12-26T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:12:58","slug":"military-retirement-and-disability-in-texas-divorce-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/military-retirement-and-disability-in-texas-divorce-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Retirement and Disability in Texas Divorce Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parties to a Texas divorce may wish to reach a settlement agreement to avoid protracted litigation and resolve their issues amicably.\u00a0 Divorcing spouses may enter into an agreement incident to divorce pursuant to Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 7.006, which may generally be revised or repudiated at any time before the divorce is rendered.\u00a0 They may also enter into a mediated settlement agreement pursuant to Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 6.002.\u00a0 A mediated settlement agreement under \u00a7 6.002 is binding if it includes a prominent statement that it is not subject to revocation and is signed by both parties and their attorneys who are present.\u00a0 In a recent case<\/a>, a former husband challenged a divorce decree that included language that was not in the parties\u2019 mediated settlement agreement prohibiting him from waiving his military retirement for disability.<\/p>\n

The parties executed a mediated settlement agreement (\u201cMSA\u201d) providing that the wife would get 50% of the community portion of her husband\u2019s \u201cnet disposable retired pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wife asked the court to add a provision to the final divorce decree that would prohibit the husband from waiving military retirement pay in exchange for military disability.\u00a0 She asked the court to include language requiring him to reimburse her if he elected to waive retirement pay and receive disability.<\/p>\n

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Parties to a Texas divorce may wish to reach a settlement agreement to avoid protracted litigation and resolve their issues amicably.\u00a0 Divorcing spouses may enter into an agreement incident to divorce pursuant to Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 7.006, which may generally be revised or repudiated at any time before the divorce is rendered.\u00a0 They may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-military"],"yoast_head":"\nMilitary Retirement and Disability in Texas Divorce Settlement — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — December 26, 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parties to a Texas divorce may wish to reach a settlement agreement to avoid protracted litigation and resolve their issues amicably.\u00a0 Divorcing spouses — December 26, 2025\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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