Tracing Separate Property - Enos Family Law

Spouse Can Trace His Own Separate Property

Ross Rasberry on August 16, 2025

Sometimes, an expert CPA is not needed to trace separate property funds in an account. A spouse can testify and use documentation to prove that some or all of an account is his or her separate property. Hurt v. Hurt, No. 14-23-00414-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] 7/17/2025)(mem. op.) is a July 2025 case […]

Divorce court cannot award reimbursement to a spouse’s separate estate if the spouse did not trace her separate property.

Ross Rasberry on July 13, 2013

Here, the wife’s separate estate was awarded a $41,000 reimbursement claim against the community estate which the trial court used to reach a 60/40 property split. The court of appeals held that the wife failed to prove $32,000 of that amount was her separate property and this required a reversal of the entire property division […]