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. Under the decree, the woman was to receive 60 percent of the net proceeds generated by the sale of the marital home, while the remaining share belonged to her former husband.That allocation gave her a significant financial stake in the outcome of the transaction.But that didn’t necessarily give her unilateral power to refuse an offer, stall the closing or stop the property from being sold if the court…