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Texas Family Code - Section 5.002. Sale Of Separate Homestead After Spouse Judicially Declared Incapacitated

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§ 5.002. SALE OF SEPARATE HOMESTEAD AFTER SPOUSE 
JUDICIALLY DECLARED INCAPACITATED.  If the homestead is the 
separate property of a spouse and the other spouse has been 
judicially declared incapacitated by a court exercising original 
jurisdiction over guardianship and other matters under Chapter 
XIII, Texas Probate Code, the owner may sell, convey, or encumber 
the homestead without the joinder of the other spouse.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997.  
Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 217, § 25, eff. Sept. 1, 
2001.

Last modified: August 11, 2007