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What’s the difference between community property and separate property in Texas?
What’s the difference between community property and separate property in Texas?
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community property
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is property that is jointly owned by
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the marital estate and everything
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owned by either the husband or the wife
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is considered to be community property
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it doesn’t matter whose name it’s in
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whether it’s in his name her name
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both names makes no difference it’s
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still community property
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same is true of a bank account of a
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house of any type of property that you
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own
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if it was accrued during the marriage it
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is community property
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there are certain things that are
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separate which are not factored into the
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division of the community estate
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that would be anything either spouse
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brought into the marriage anything
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a spouse inherited a gift or certain
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personal injury damages
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and the burden is on the spouse trying
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to prove separate property
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to actually have that counted as
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separate property
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and generally the longer parties have
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been married the harder it
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is for them to prove something was
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separate at least with respect to
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having been brought into the marriage
Dallas, TX family law attorney Holly Draper explains the difference between community property and separate property in Texas.
