## Facts

- Multiple reported decisions share the caption *Wilson v. Wilson* across different jurisdictions and legal subjects, making identification dependent on a jurisdiction, year, or reporter citation.
- One identified *Wilson v. Wilson* decision is a Texas Court of Appeals case reported at 44 S.W.3d 597 (2001).
- The Texas case arose from a divorce proceeding that involved division of community property.
- The divorce proceeding also involved an award of attorney’s fees.
- Other distinct cases with the same caption exist in California (1948), Virginia (1991), North Carolina (2010), and the United Kingdom (1969), each involving different legal issues and holdings.
- Without a specific identifier, details such as the parties’ circumstances, procedural posture beyond the general case type, the precise trial-court rulings, and the appellate court’s reasoning cannot be reliably attributed to any single *Wilson v. Wilson* decision.

## Issues

1. Which reported decision titled *Wilson v. Wilson* is the intended case for summarization when multiple unrelated cases share the same caption.
2. In the Texas case reported at 44 S.W.3d 597 (Tex. App. 2001), whether the trial court erred in dividing community property in the divorce.
3. In that Texas case, whether the trial court erred in awarding attorney’s fees in connection with the divorce.

## Decision

- Because the available record does not include the actual opinion text for any one *Wilson v. Wilson* case, a complete summary of the court’s holdings and reasoning cannot be stated with accuracy.
- The Texas case identified by citation is an appellate decision addressing community-property division and attorney’s fees in a divorce.
- The governing mode of review for such divorce rulings in Texas appellate practice is generally framed in terms of trial-court discretion, but the specific disposition in this case (affirmance, reversal, modification, or remand) cannot be confirmed from the provided material.

## Legal Principles

- A case caption alone is not a reliable identifier; a valid legal citation requires jurisdictional and reporter details to determine the controlling court, date, and precedential context.
- Divorce property division and attorney’s-fee awards are typically reviewed on appeal under standards that defer to the trial court’s discretionary judgments, subject to legal constraints and evidentiary support.
- Accurate case summarization requires opinion-specific facts (material events), procedural posture (trial rulings, points of error), and the appellate court’s holdings; absent those, only the general subject matter can be stated.

## Conclusion

The available material identifies several unrelated cases titled *Wilson v. Wilson* and provides only high-level subject descriptors; selecting the Texas case by citation (44 S.W.3d 597) permits a narrow characterization as a divorce appeal involving community-property division and attorney’s fees, but the record provided is insufficient to state the court’s specific holdings or reasoning without risking factual error.


Wilson v. Wilson, 44 S.W.3d 597 (Tex. App. 2001)