Cockerham v. Cockerham

I respectfully dissent. In my opinion the one-half of the dairy properties found and declared by the trial court to be community property was under the joint management, control, and disposition of Mr. and Mrs. Cockerham, albeit he possessed and managed the dairy at all pertinent times.

Without dispute, the community dairy properties were purchased with what are now classed as joint management community funds. The dairy properties have never met, and do not now meet, any of the classes of community property characterized in Section 5.22(a), V.T.C.A., Family Code, as community property subject…