Tex. Fam. Code § 3.203 · Subchapter C. MARITAL PROPERTY LIABILITIES
ORDER IN WHICH PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO EXECUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A judge may determine, as deemed just and equitable, the order in which particular separate or community property is subject to execution and sale to satisfy a judgment, if the property subject to liability for a judgment includes any combination of:
(1) a spouse's separate property;
(2) community property subject to a spouse's sole management, control, and disposition;
(3) community property subject to the other spouse's sole management, control, and disposition; and
(4) community property subject to the spouses' joint management, control, and disposition.
(b) In determining the order in which particular property is subject to execution and sale, the judge shall consider the facts surrounding the transaction or occurrence on which the suit is based.
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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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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