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Tex. Fam. Code § 4.203

FORMALITIES OF AGREEMENT

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case In Re the Estate of Cunningham (2012)

Most recently applied in Benito Manuel Alvarez Alonso and Teresa F. Zeevaret Wolff v. Lucia Zeevaret Alvarez (July 2013)

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 3, eff

(a) An agreement to convert separate property to community property:

(1) must be in writing and:

(A) be signed by the spouses;

(B) identify the property being converted; and

(C) specify that the property is being converted to the spouses' community property; and

(2) is enforceable without consideration.

(b) The mere transfer of a spouse's separate property to the name of the other spouse or to the name of both spouses is not sufficient to convert the property to community property under this subchapter.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.