Texas Family Code - FAM § 3.401. Definitions

(1) “Benefited estate” means a marital estate that receives a benefit from another marital estate.

(2) “Conferring estate” means a marital estate that confers a benefit on another marital estate.

(3) Repealed by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., ch. 768, § 11(2).

(4) “Marital estate” means one of three estates:

(5) “Spouse” means a husband, who is a man, or a wife, who is a woman.  A member of a civil union or similar relationship entered into in another state between persons of the same sex is not a spouse.