Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Thomas Oldham (EMERTI)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Family Law
Time: 4:00p-5:30p TTH Location: 210
Course Outline: Marital Property Rights is a survey of legal issues that arise from intimate relationships. The primary focus is Texas community property law, and the rights married couples have in property accumulated while married. The other primary topic covered is Texas homestead law, basically the protection Texas law provides for a family’s home, as well as the rules that govern encumbering or selling the home.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: Supplementary Materials "P" - Cougarnet Login Required
Final Exam Schedule: 5/7/2024 6-9 210
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Oldham, Texas Homestead Law, 3d edition 2006 (ISBN: TBD), and Oldham, Texas Marital Property Rights, 6th ed 2016 (CAP) (ISBN: 978-1611637915)
Supplementary materials will be made available to students in the class electronically (link in first class assignment space on this page, 10/11/2023).
