Can a Spouse Be Ordered to Pay Bills and Attorney Fees During a Texas Divorce?

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]One spouse can be ordered to pay bills or legal fees during a divorce. With a temporary orders hearing, you can ask for something that's called interim attorney's fees, so that the other spouse is going to be helping pay your attorney's fees or even an equalization of fees so that whatever they paid their attorney, they're also going to pay to your attorney. Additionally, let's say the bread winner moves out of the marital residence based on a temporary orders hearing, but the other person's a stay-at-home parent. They still need to be able to pay the bills and even though they're going to be looking for work, that might take a little bit of time.

[00:00:33]And so the court can order that the party that's moving out still has to help with the bills at the Marill residence.