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Texas Divorce Checklist: Before You File
The residency rule, your property questions and the filing steps, so you know what a Texas divorce involves before it starts.
✓ The six-month and 90-day residency rule
✓ How Texas treats community property
✓ The filing steps and the answer deadline
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Thinking about divorce in Texas? Know this first.
Who it's for
For Texans starting or responding to a divorce. Get the free one-page checklist now, then use Texas Divorce when you want the full explanation, with the section of Texas law behind each rule.
What's on the checklist
- Can you file here? Six months of residency in Texas; 90 days of residency in the county where you file; Grounds: insupportability or a fault ground
- Your property questions: Everything is presumed community property (Family Code §3.003); Separate property falls in three categories (§3.001); Tracing, commingling and reimbursement; A just and right division is not always fifty-fifty
- The filing steps: The petition and e-filing; The three service paths; The answer deadline, and the default judgment a missed one can bring; Temporary orders, discovery and the sworn inventory; Mediation and the final decree
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Legal information, not legal advice. STACKED LEGAL® is a publisher, not a law firm. Using this checklist creates no attorney-client relationship and promises no outcome. Laws change; verify current law and talk to a licensed attorney in Texas about your situation.