Tex. Fam. Code § 3.401 · Subchapter E. CLAIMS FOR REIMBURSEMENT
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Benefited estate" means a marital estate that receives a benefit from another marital estate.
(2) "Conferring estate" means a marital estate that confers a benefit on another marital estate.
(3) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 768, Sec. 11(2), eff. September 1, 2009.
(4) "Marital estate" means one of three estates:
(A) the community property owned by the spouses together and referred to as the community marital estate;
(B) the separate property owned individually by the husband and referred to as a separate marital estate; or
(C) the separate property owned individually by the wife, also referred to as a separate marital estate.
(5) "Spouse" means a husband, who is a man, or a wife, who is a woman. A member of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between persons of the same sex is not a spouse.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 838, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 768 (S.B. 866), Sec. 11(2), eff. September 1, 2009.
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 411 (H.B. 1547), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- 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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