In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana No. 06-22-00035-CV IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF ROBERT MOORE AND ZULEMA JUANA MARIA RODRIGUEZ CALDERON MOORE On Appeal from the 102nd District Court Bowie County, Texas Trial Court No. 18D0758-102 Before Morriss, C.J., Stevens and van Cleef, JJ. Memorandum Opinion by Justice van Cleef MEMORANDUM OPINION In 2008, Robert Moore married Zulema Juana Maria Rodriguez Calderon Moore in Monterrey, Mexico. At the time, Robert was sixty years old and Zulema was twenty-seven. Over the next ten years, the couple did not live together, except for about six weeks in the spring of 2018. On December 9, 2021, the trial court granted Robert’s petition for divorce on the ground of insupportability1 and awarded each party the property they had in their possession, along with any debts each party had incurred since the date of their separation. In this appeal, Zulema complains that the trial court (1) failed to enter findings of fact and conclusions of law and (2) abused its discretion by failing to order a just and right division of the marital property. Because Zulema was not harmed by the failure to enter findings of fact and conclusions of law and she has not shown that the trial court abused its discretion, we will affirm the trial court’s judgment. I. Background According to Robert, after a recent divorce, he joined an online dating site called Latin Cupid, found Zulema’s profile, and began online communications with her. In October or November 2007, he drove to Monterrey, Mexico, where he met Zulema in a hotel bar, chatted with her, and took her out to dinner. The next day they drove around and went shopping, and then Robert returned to the United States.2 After additional email correspondence and a few 1 See TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. § 6.001. 2 Zulema denied meeting Robert on a dating website, denied that a photograph of her taken by Robert that resembled a photograph posted on a Latin Cupid profile under the name Zulema was her, and testified that she met Robert in a hotel bar while he was on vacation in Monterrey. Before its oral pronouncement of judgment, the trial court noted 2 additional trips to Mexico, Robert married Zulema on February 22, 2008, in Monterrey. Robert testified that they did not have a honeymoon or sexual relations, and after a few days, Robert returned to Texas and Zulema remained in Mexico. Robert hired an attorney to obtain visas for Zulema and her son and met Zulema in El Paso in late 2008 for her immigration interview. After the interview, the U.S. government denied visas to Zulema and her son, but Zulema did not tell Robert the reason. According to Robert, he had no relationship or communications with Zulema until the latter part of 2017 or early 2018, when she contacted him and wanted to come to the United States. He once again hired an attorney to obtain visas for Zulema and …
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