Suit alleges La Marque school board member not resident of district
GALVESTON - A Texas City man is asking a federal judge for a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction against a woman running for La Marque Independent School District Board of Trustees.
Jacques K. Bell argues that Nakisha Paul is not qualified to contend for a seat on the board of trustees because she reportedly did not claim the district which she aspired to represent as her legal residence within the time constraints set by state law, a motion to U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt states.
Court papers, which also name school district as a defendant, were filed June 20 in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas.
Paul ran within a district apportioned as part of a single-member district plan.
"Ms. Paul on multiple documents swore or stated that she lived in a district other than the district where she sought office and was registered to vote in the district where she did not seek office," the original complaint says.
It adds that Paul was receiving a homestead exemption in the district where she did not run.
"By running and ultimately winning in the district where she was not qualified, and the La Marque school district allows this, the voters in the district where Ms. Paul won and all voters are denied equal protection under the law and the respondents are violating the Voting Rights Act," the motion says.
Bell, who is representing himself in the case, insists "this would not have happened without Ms. Paul giving fraudulent information to unlawfully seek office."
He requests that the election be declared unlawful and a new contest be held with qualified candidates.
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It adds that Paul was receiving a homestead exemption in the district where she did not run. "By running and ultimately winning in the district where she was not qualified, and the La Marque school district allows this, the voters in the district where
Her uncles -- Will, 9, Sam, 16, Tom, 18 -- also lived on the Campbell homestead in Springfield. The oldest son, Jack, had married and moved to one of the family plantations in Mississippi, and Leonidas was often gone on family business.
I'd love Detroit to become some kind of an education homestead act. Let's have Apollo, DeVry, hell Walmart, Google, let them come in and sell the schools to private companies and let's have a rebirth of education in this country.
Abilene effectively raises more money because its local optional homestead exemption is only 5 percent, whereas San Angelo's is 20 percent, the maximum allowed under current law. So while the tax rate of each district is the same — $1.04 per $100
The district was working to counteract the effects of the heavliy favored interest in not raising the local property rate from $1.04 per $100 valuation of a homestead to $1.17, the highest allowed under current state law.
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Black’s Law Dictionary. The Texas Constitution provides for homestead protection, exempting a person’s homestead from forced sale except under limited circumstances. The primary purpose of the exemption is to preserve family integrity and provide the debtor and debtor’s family a home and means of support, preventing the family from becoming a burden on the public. 39 Aloysius A. Leopold, Texas Practice: Marital Property and Homesteads § 26.2. The following is an overview of the fundamentals of Texas homestead law.
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There are two classifications of homesteads in Texas with the size of the exemption depending on the classification. The two classifications include urban and rural homesteads.
1. Urban Homesteads
The Texas Property Code defines an urban homestead as property which, at the time of its designation, is located within a municipality and is served by police and fire protection as well as three of the following municipality services: electric, gas, sewer, storm sewer, and water. The urban homestead is limited to ten acres with a person being able to designate more than one lot provided the lots are contiguous and all lots making up the urban homestead do not exceed the ten acre limitation. Tex. Prop. Code § 41.002.
2. Rural Homesteads
The Texas Constitution limits rural homesteads to 200 acres. However, a single adult is limited to only 100 acres. Tex. Prop. Code § 41.002(b).
The current version of the Texas Property Code provides no definition of “rural” homestead; however, the term has been interpreted to mean all other homesteads that do not fall within the parameters of the urban homestead definition.
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The primary benefit of a homestead is that it is generally not subject to attachment, execution or forced sale by creditors. The Texas Constitution provides nine exceptions to this general rule and Texas residents are entitled to the security of their home not being taken by creditors unless the creditor falls within one the nine specific exceptions listed below.
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