Even if a couple is currently married, the Texas tax break would not apply if either person had previously been divorced.
for opposite-sex married couples with 10 children. Straight married couples with fewer than 10 children would also receive a break on property taxes, but just not as much. Think three kids should be enough to qualify? Think again! The threshold at which a couple would save a little extra come tax time starts at four, which gives you a 40% cut. Five gets you 50%, and so on and so forth.
Wondering whether you’d qualify if you were married once, got divorced, and then remarried and had between four and 10 kids with your new spouse? You would not! Per the text of the bill, a “‘qualifying married couple’ means a man and a woman who are legally married to each other, neither of whom have ever been divorced.” As for a “qualifying child,” if biological, the child would have to be born after the couple married; if adopted, the couple would have to marry before the child was adopted.
“With this bill, Texas will start saying to couples, ‘Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply,’” Slaton, who we assume thinks
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