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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Family Code § 9.204: DIVISION OF UNDIVIDED ASSETS WHEN PRIOR COURT LACKED JURISDICTION.

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  1. FAMILY CODE
  2. TITLE 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP
  3. SUBTITLE C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
  4. CHAPTER 9. POST-DECREE PROCEEDINGS
  5. SUBCHAPTER C. POST-DECREE DIVISION OF PROPERTY

(a) If a court of this state failed to dispose of property subject to division in a final decree of divorce or annulment because the court lacked jurisdiction over a spouse or the property, and if that court subsequently acquires the requisite jurisdiction, that court may divide the property in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage.

(b) If a final decree of divorce or annulment rendered by a court in another state failed to dispose of property subject to division under the law of that state because the court lacked jurisdiction over a spouse or the property, and if a court of this state subsequently acquires the requisite jurisdiction over the former spouses or over the property, the court in this state may divide the property in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.

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