Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

You need to both sign a Final Decree of Divorce. In that document everything is divided as you have agreed.

Your wife, the Petitioner, appears before the judge and under oath reads a statement (or if she has an attorney answers a series of questions) proving up certain facts that are required under Texas law - such as her name, your name, the date of the marriage, the date of separation, that this is a fair and equitable division of your property, that this is all the property acquired during the marriage -- these are sample questions and are probably not the exact questions her attorney would ask her -- so don't hold me to the EXACT wording!

If your wife wants to go back to a former name that she used, she can include that in the Final decree of Divorce -- for FREE! But it has to be pled in her petition (or her amended petition for divorce).

Then the judge signs the Final Decree of Divorce.

If you don't understand all of this, then hire an attorney and get it done right!