RIGHT TO FUTURE PROPERTY
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case National Plan Administrators, Inc. v. National Health Insurance Co. (2007)
Most recently applied in in the Interest of T.F., J.F., L.F., and W.F., Children (May 2019)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, 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) The court may, by any remedy provided by this chapter, enforce an award of the right to receive installment payments or a lump-sum payment due on the maturation of an existing vested or nonvested right to be paid in the future.
(b) The subsequent actual receipt by the non-owning party of property awarded to the owner in a decree of divorce or annulment creates a fiduciary obligation in favor of the owner and imposes a constructive trust on the property for the benefit of the owner.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.