is it mandatory to reopen a divorce after five years in the state of texas?
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is it mandatory to reopen a divorce after five years in the state of texas?
i am in the u.s. military and am serving overseas with a legal question about divorce. i was divorced in texas in 2004 and my ex-wife is now telling me that in texas every five years of a divorce it is financially “opened” and looked at again. she is telling me that i am required to supply my military pay info in full to her lawyer so they can be submitted back to the court. if these documents were really needed by the court wouldn’t the court be asking for them. when the divorce proceedings occurred the first time i was deployed and everything was agreed ahead of time, so i never got to here the divorce decree read aloud by a judge or read by my lawyer afterwords. it was a long deployment so by the time i got back the entire process had been over for several months. i can’t find anything in my divorce papers that say anything about this five year review, but i don’t know, and can’t find anything, about this review process. can you help clarify just a bit for my benefit. thanks
Asked on June 1, 2009 under Family Law
Answers:
Denise Ferguson / Denise Ferguson Attorney At Law
Answered 14 years ago | Contributor
Child support and alimony (modifiable) can be reviewed but a divorce (property distribution) is final.
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