context: Texas courts have consistently held that stock options acquired during marriage are a contingent property interest and a community asset subject to division upon divorce.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 544 S.W.2d 665, 665-66
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that employee spouse's accrued but un-vested retirement benefits are a contingent property interest and a community asset
citation_a.sentence: Kline, 17 S.W.3d at 446; Bodin, 955 S.W.2d at 381; see also Cearley, 544 S.W.2d at 665-66 (holding that employee spouse’s accrued but un-vested retirement benefits are a contingent property interest and a community asset).
citation_b.signal: but see
citation_b.identifier: 755 S.W.2d 496, 498
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that employee spouses's interest in his company's profit sharing stock plan awarded for work done outside of marriage was spouse's separate property
citation_b.sentence: But see Acosta v. Acosta, 836 S.W.2d 652, 654 (Tex.App.-El Paso 1992, no writ) (holding that stock plan to which employer and employee spouse both made contributions and whose value was dependent on length of employee spouse’s employment was a deferred compensation retirement plan); In re Marriage of Joiner, 755 S.W.2d 496, 498 (Tex.App.-Amarillo 1988, no writ) (holding that employee spouses’s interest in his company’s profit sharing stock plan awarded for work done outside of marriage was spouse’s separate property).