{"id":717,"date":"2017-06-09T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T19:59:22","slug":"mediated-settlement-agreements-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/mediated-settlement-agreements-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediated Settlement Agreements in Texas Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/texas\/fifth-court-of-appeals\/2017\/05-16-00344-cv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas appellate case<\/a>, a wife appealed from a final divorce decree that incorporated the terms of the couple&#8217;s mediated settlement agreement. After she and her husband entered into the agreement, she asked the trial court to set it aside.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had married in 1997 and had no kids. They decided to divorce in 2015 and mediated their differences. They signed an agreement dividing up their property and debts, but it was contingent on a short sale of a house they owned. The husband was awarded the interest in the property, and the wife had to sign certain documents. She would be paid a portion of the proceeds from the sale. Meanwhile, the husband got all of the interest in their two trusts.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, the wife tried to withdraw, and the trial court granted the motion. The husband asked the court to sign a final divorce decree, while the wife tried to quash the agreement. The husband asked a receiver to be appointed, claiming that the wife refused to sign the papers in order to facilitate the property sale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/mediated-settlement-agreements-texas-divorce\/#more-717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Texas appellate case, a wife appealed from a final divorce decree that incorporated the terms of the couple&#8217;s mediated settlement agreement. After she and her husband entered into the agreement, she asked the trial court to set it aside. The couple had married in 1997 and had no kids. They decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,140,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce","category-property-rights","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mediated Settlement Agreements in Texas Divorce &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; June 9, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent Texas appellate case, a wife appealed from a final divorce decree that incorporated the terms of the couple&#039;s mediated settlement agreement. &#8212; June 9, 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\/mediated-settlement-agreements-texas-divorce\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mediated Settlement Agreements in Texas Divorce &#8212; 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