Tex. Fam. Code § 3.102 · Subchapter B. MANAGEMENT, CONTROL, AND DISPOSITION OF MARITAL PROPERTY
MANAGING COMMUNITY PROPERTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) During marriage, each spouse has the sole management, control, and disposition of the community property that the spouse would have owned if single, including:
(1) personal earnings;
(2) revenue from separate property;
(3) recoveries for personal injuries; and
(4) the increase and mutations of, and the revenue from, all property subject to the spouse's sole management, control, and disposition.
(b) If community property subject to the sole management, control, and disposition of one spouse is mixed or combined with community property subject to the sole management, control, and disposition of the other spouse, then the mixed or combined community property is subject to the joint management, control, and disposition of the spouses, unless the spouses provide otherwise by power of attorney in writing or other agreement.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (a), community property is subject to the joint management, control, and disposition of the spouses unless the spouses provide otherwise by power of attorney in writing or other agreement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.3.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Fam. Code § 3.102. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Estates Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 1353.004APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN OF THE ESTATE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.Printed as Section 3.102, Family Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 1353.005ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN PROPERTY BY NON-INCAPACITATED SPOUSE.Printed as Section 3.102, Family Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 1353.051INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT BY COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATOR.Printed as Section 3.102, Family Code
- Tex. Est. Code § 1353.052ACCOUNT BY COMMUNITY ADMINISTRATOR.Printed as Section 3.102, Family Code
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