Texas Family Code
§ 9.011 — RIGHT TO FUTURE PROPERTY
FA § 9.011Title 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP · Part C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE · Ch. 9. POST-DECREE PROCEEDINGS · Art. A. SUIT TO ENFORCE DECREE
Statute text
View on source(a)The court may, by any remedy provided by this chapter, enforce an award of the right to receive installment payments or a lump-sum payment due on the maturation of an existing vested or nonvested right to be paid in the future.
(b)The subsequent actual receipt by the non-owning party of property awarded to the owner in a decree of divorce or annulment creates a fiduciary obligation in favor of the owner and imposes a constructive trust on the property for the benefit of the owner.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.