Court Opinion

ID: 9755333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:35:06.485585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:06.342898
License: Public Domain

DON BURGESS, Justice.
DISSENTING OPINION
I respectfully dissent. The majority finds the trial court erred in considering fault and I agree. They go on to hold the trial court did not abuse its discretion in the division of the community estate.1 I can not reach the same conclusion. It is clear, at least to me, the trial court considered fault in dividing the community estate. I say it is clear because it appears the trial court divided the estate according to Ms. Phillips’s proposed division and accepted her assigned values totally. Therefore, I am forced to conclude that the error found by the majority probably caused the rendition of an improper judgment. Tex. R.App. P. 44.1(a)(1). Consequently, I would reverse and remand for a new trial on the property division.

. This court has approved unequal divisions, but these were not based upon an erroneous premise.