Legal Opinion
DeGroot v. DeGroot
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 13, 2012No. 05-10-01261-CVPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice FILLMORE.
In the parties’ divorce decree, Katherine Diane DeGroot (Katherine) was awarded fifty percent of Richard Douglas DeGroot’s (Douglas’s) 401(k) plan. Douglas withdrew all funds from the 401 (k) plan and, in a post-divorce enforcement order, the trial court ordered Douglas to pay Katherine $145,310.46 as her share of the 401 (k) plan. Douglas appeals the order asserting it (1) substantively changed the property division in the divorce decree, (2) divested him of his separate property, and (3) awarded Katherine more than she requested in her pleadings. In two…
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