Divorce decree without step-down language terminated child support when “any” child turned 18, even if the younger child was still a minor and still in high school

This 1993 divorce involved two children, yet the decree ordered the father to pay child support, “…until the date of the earliest occurrence of one of the following events: a.  any child reaches the age of eighteen years,… b. any child marries…”  There was no step down provision that said “thereafter he pays $xxxx.xx until…”    […]

A spouse is entitled to an offset against the value of a community property business for the value of separate property assets contributed to the business

Hooray for the attorney who cites a case from 1889 and wins!  Perhaps we all should review Schmidt v. Huppman, 11 S.W. 175 (Tex. 1889), which held “Where it satisfactorily appears, as in this case, that one spouse brought into the partnership separate funds invested in a particular business, which business was carried on and […]