Beck v. Beck

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• enforcing premarital agreement providing that income from separate properties would be separate property of owner spouse and acknowledging state’s public policy determination to enforce premarital agreements
• “The legislature and the people of Texas have made the public policy determination that premarital agreements should be enforced. If we refuse to enforce [Husband’s] and [Wife’s] premarital agreement, we would thwart, rather than advance, our state’s public policy enforcing these contracts.”
• using terms “premarital agreement” and “contract” interchangeably
• applying a constitutional amendment retroactively

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pletcher v. Goetz
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-16· cited 105×
• Marsh v. Marsh
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-07-10· cited 99×
• Westchester Fire Insurance Co. v. Admiral Insurance Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-02· cited 84×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 78×
• Sheshunoff v. Sheshunoff
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-08-22· cited 71×
• Fanning v. Fanning
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-03-24· cited 50×
• Fix v. Flagstar Bank, FSB
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2007-12-13· cited 43×
• Fanning v. Fanning
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1992-03-04· cited 34×
• Alma Investments, Inc. v. Bahia Mar Co-Owners Ass'n
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-12· cited 26×
• Pearce v. Pearce
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1992-01-02· cited 26×
• Carey v. Lincoln Loan Co.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2005-12-28· cited 26×
• Jurek v. Couch-Jurek
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2009-09-23· cited 24×
• Williams v. Williams
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-01-31· cited 23×
• in the Matter of the Marriage of I.C. and Q.C. and in the Interest of S.C. and K.C., Children
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-06-29· cited 18×
• Carey v. Lincoln Loan Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2007-04-12· cited 17×
• Fazakerly v. Fazakerly
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1999-05-27· cited 15×
• Dokmanovic v. Schwarz
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-07-14· cited 12×
• Howard Worthing and Lisa Worthing v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Argent Securities Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-W5 And Homeward Residential, Inc. F/K/A American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2017-07-31· cited 5×
• Kilgore Independent School District v. Darlene Axberg, John Claude Axberg, Sheila Anderson, and the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2019-02-11· cited 5×
• Creel v. Martinez
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-03-09· cited 1×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hopkins v. Bacon
  Supreme Court· 1930-11-24· cited 205×
• Williams v. Williams
  Texas Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 93×
• Red Rover Copper Co. v. Industrial Commission
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1941-11-10· cited 60×
• Chiles v. Chiles
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-26· cited 57×
• Matthews v. Quinton Ex Rel. Quinton
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 43×
• Gorman v. Gause
  Texas Commission of Appeals· 1933-02-01· cited 41×
• Ex Parte Southern Ry. Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-11-21· cited 40×
• Daniel v. Daniel
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1989-10-12· cited 26×
• Paluck v. BD. OF CTY. COMM'RS, STARK COUNTY
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1981-07-09· cited 22×
• Sadler v. Sadler
  Texas Supreme Court· 1989-05-17· cited 14×
• Doherty v. Bartlett
  First Circuit· 1936-02-12· cited 11×
• Estate of Castleberry v. Commissioner
  U.S. Tax Court· 1977-08-08· cited 10×
• Hutchinson v. Patching
  Texas Supreme Court· 1910-10-26· cited 6×
• Beck v. Beck
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-06-15· cited 4×
• Golden v. People ex rel. Baker
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1937-03-22· cited 3×