Historically, Texas has treated a marriage between a husband and wife somewhat like a partnership, with property acquired during the marriage belonging to the community estate. Many of the community property concepts in Texas were derived from Spanish law, and survive to this day. The partnership, or community property approach to marriage holds that each party brings unique talents to the marriage, that the parties work together to support the marriage as husband and wife, and that the property that either one or both of them acquire,...Continue Reading...
