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In Texas, all property possessed by either spouse at the time of divorce is presumed to be community property under Texas Family Code \u00a7 3.003<\/a>. A recent appellate case arose out of the divorce of a Texas couple who\u00a0had been married in Mexico in 1999. In Mexico, they got their civil marriage application, which required them to choose between two marriage property systems, separate property or community property, in order to regulate ownership of their items of property. They chose to have separate property.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the wife sued for divorce. She asked for the community property to be divided disproportionately. The husband counterclaimed and stated that he and his wife had to have separate property. He attached a facsimile of the couple’s marriage certificate that included the agreement to have separate property during the marriage, but the certificate wasn’t signed.<\/p>\n

At trial, an expert testified for the husband and provided the opinion that in Mexico, a marriage application is treated as a prenuptial agreement. The husband testified that the couple signed the application, but the wife testified she didn’t remember signing the application. She claimed only the husband handled the paperwork, and she didn’t even remember talking about choosing a property regime before the wedding.<\/p>\n

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In Texas, all property possessed by either spouse at the time of divorce is presumed to be community property under Texas Family Code \u00a7 3.003. A recent appellate case arose out of the divorce of a Texas couple who\u00a0had been married in Mexico in 1999. In Mexico, they got their civil marriage application, which required […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prenuptial-agreement","category-property"],"yoast_head":"\nCommunity Property Presumption In Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — March 14, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Texas, all property possessed by either spouse at the time of divorce is presumed to be community property under Texas Family Code \u00a7 3.003. 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