Texas appeals court upholds sale of marital home despite wife's challenge to $685,000 offer

A Texas woman challenged a court-ordered sale of the home she once shared with her former husband after a receiver received an offer of $685,000, according to the Justia U.S. Law case record for the Second Court of Appeals at Fort Worth.

Although her divorce decree awarded her 60 percent of the net proceeds from the sale, the appellate court upheld the lower court’s decision to allow the receiver to proceed and affirmed the related orders.The dispute illustrates how limited a former spouse’s control can be after a divorce court orders a marital residence sold. Even where a decree spells out how the money will be divided, a receiver may still be empowered to market, contract for, and complete the sale when the parties cannot or will not carry out the court’s instructions themselves.What the decree providedThe case arose after a Texas divorce court entered a decree dividing the couple’s marital property.