APPLICATION OF INCEPTION OF TITLE RULE; OWNERSHIP INTEREST NOT CREATED
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Sink v. Sink (2012)
Most recently applied in Guillermo Rivera v. Maria E. Hernandez (January 2014)
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 2, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This subchapter does not affect the rule of inception of title under which the character of property is determined at the time the right to own or claim the property arises.
(b) A claim for reimbursement under this subchapter does not create an ownership interest in property, but does create a claim against the property of the benefited estate by the conferring estate. The claim matures on dissolution of the marriage or the death of either spouse.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.