Texas Supreme Court

Rita Lackey Fillingim Pearson, Petitioner v. Willis Dan Fillingim, Respondent

January 14, 201154 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 436

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to alter the property division in the 1981 divorce decree and that the mineral rights were community property divided by the decree's residuary clause. Accordingly, the Court reversed the Court of Appeals and dismissed Dan's claims.