Panel:  No Error In Confirming Arbitration Award In Family Dispute Over Property

Mealey's (August 2, 2019, 10:02 AM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A trial court did not err in compelling arbitration between a wife and step-son, who held a durable power of attorney for the husband, based on an arbitration clause in a premarital agreement, a Texas appeals panel affirmed July 30, also upholding the trial court’s confirmation of an arbitration award in favor of the step-son (Mahasin A. Hawdi v. Atheel Mutammara, agent and attorney-in-fact for William B. Mutammara, No. 01-18-00024-CV, Texas App., 1st Dist., 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 6486)....