Tex. Fam. Code § 4.203 · Subchapter C. AGREEMENT TO CONVERT SEPARATE PROPERTY TO COMMUNITY PROPERTY
FORMALITIES OF AGREEMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An agreement to convert separate property to community property:
(1) must be in writing and:
(A) be signed by the spouses;
(B) identify the property being converted; and
(C) specify that the property is being converted to the spouses' community property; and
(2) is enforceable without consideration.
(b) The mere transfer of a spouse's separate property to the name of the other spouse or to the name of both spouses is not sufficient to convert the property to community property under this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 692, Sec. 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.
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.4.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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