BUCKLER v. BUCKLER

No. 16863.

424 S.W.2d 514 (1967)

Mary Frances BUCKLER, Appellant, v. Jack Moore BUCKLER, Jr., et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied February 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lancaster Smith, and Harvey L. Davis, Dallas, for appellant.

Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Cravens & Scarborough, and R. Daniel Settle, Fort Worth, for Jack M. Buckler, Jr.

Weeks, Bird, Cannon & Appleman, and Ben Bird, Fort Worth, for the Trustees of The Walker-Buckler Trust, and The Alice Walker Testamentary Trust.


OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

This is a divorce case. The appeal attacks the court's judgment as applied to the distribution of property.

Primarily, the question posed is whether the divorced wife is entitled to have considered as community property the undistributed income accumulated in what in substance constituted "spendthrift trusts" created in behalf of the divorced husband. In the findings set forth in the judgment the trial court made it...

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