{"id":702,"date":"2017-06-02T17:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2017-06-02T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:12:04","slug":"partitioning-bonuses-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent Texas Supreme Court case<\/a>, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was whether the agreement partitioned a discretionary employee bonus that the husband got nine months after the divorce was granted. The husband argued that it was future income and earnings that the agreement partitioned to him, but the wife argued it was earned during the marriage and should be considered undivided community property.<\/p>\n

The couple in question married in 1980. The husband worked at an energy and commodity trading company starting in 1992. As part of his employment, he was eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. This wasn’t guaranteed but would be awarded based on performance. While married, he got a bonus every year.<\/p>\n

The wife sued for divorce in 2008, and the couple agreed to divide $10 million of community assets with $5 million to each spouse. However, since\u00a0they couldn’t resolve other differences, they entered into mediation from which they developed a mediated settlement agreement. This agreement partitioned other property, including retirement plans and jewelry. The husband claimed that the bonus he’d gotten in 2010 before the finalizing of the mediation settlement agreement went into an account awarded to his wife.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was whether the agreement partitioned a discretionary employee bonus that the husband got nine months after the divorce was granted. The husband argued that it was future income and earnings that the agreement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property"],"yoast_head":"\nPartitioning Bonuses in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 2, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was — June 2, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 2, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was — June 2, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kelly McClure\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 2, 2017","description":"In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was — June 2, 2017","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 2, 2017","twitter_description":"In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was — June 2, 2017","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kelly McClure","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/"},"author":{"name":"Kelly McClure","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d242451d01f4b8ae44c765b4296b15f1"},"headline":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas","datePublished":"2017-06-02T22:12:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/"},"wordCount":651,"articleSection":["Property"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/","name":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas — Texas Divorce Attorney Blog — June 2, 2017","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-06-02T22:12:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d242451d01f4b8ae44c765b4296b15f1"},"description":"In a recent Texas Supreme Court case, the Court considered a mediated settlement agreement related to a discretionary employee bonus. The issue was — June 2, 2017","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/partitioning-bonuses-texas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Partitioning Bonuses in Texas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/","name":"Texas Divorce Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Texas Collaborative & Family Attorney \u2014 McClure Law Group","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d242451d01f4b8ae44c765b4296b15f1","name":"Kelly McClure","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f9a434392857fa0f1c071557d1e298705df5691bd0750001911a213a4279014?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f9a434392857fa0f1c071557d1e298705df5691bd0750001911a213a4279014?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f9a434392857fa0f1c071557d1e298705df5691bd0750001911a213a4279014?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kelly McClure"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/kelly-mcclure.html"],"url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/author\/mcclurelaw2\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}