Tex. Family Code § 9.011: RIGHT TO FUTURE PROPERTY.
Where this section sits in the code
- FAMILY CODE
- TITLE 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP
- SUBTITLE C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER 9. POST-DECREE PROCEEDINGS
- SUBCHAPTER A. SUIT TO ENFORCE DECREE
(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.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
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