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Homestead: $23,675 ($47,350 if you are filing jointly with your spouse) of the equity in your home
Personal Property:
Motor vehicle: $3,775
Jewelry: $1,600
Home goods, furniture, appliances, clothing, books, animals, crops, or musical instruments: Total of $12,625 ($600 max for each individual item)
Professional books, implements, or tools of trade: $2,375
Health aids prescribed by a doctor: All
Unmatured life insurance contracts other than credit life insurance: All
Life insurance contract accrued interest, dividend, or loan value: $12,625
Retirement Accounts:
Retirement accounts exempt from taxation: All
IRAs and Roth IRAs: $1,283,025
Benefits and Supports:
Alimony: All
Child Support: All
Life insurance payments of someone you were a dependent of reasonably necessary for your support: All
Public Benefits (Social security benefits unemployment compensation and benefits, veteran’s benefits, public assistance, and disability benefits): All
Wildcard: $1,250 plus $11,850 of any unused portion of your homestead exemption.
State
Homestead:
Unlimited; property cannot exceed 10 acres in town, village, city or 100 acres (200 for families) elsewhere; sale proceeds exempt for 6 months after sale (renting okay if another home not acquired)
If property acreage is larger than what is covered by homestead exemption, may have to file homestead declaration
Personal Property:
$60,000 total for family, $30,000 for single adult
Liquor licenses & permits
Prepaid tuition plans
Athletic & sporting equipment, including bicycles
Clothing & food
Health savings accounts
Home furnishings including family heirlooms
Jewelry (limited to 25% of total exemption)
Pets & domestic animals plus their food: 2 horses, mules, or donkeys & tack; 12 head of cattle; 60 head of other livestock; 120 fowl
1 two-, three- or four-wheeled motor vehicle per family member or per single adult who holds a driver's license; or, if not licensed, who relies on someone else to operate vehicle
2 firearms
Farming or ranching vehicles & implements
Tools of the trade: tools, equipment (includes boat & motor vehicles used in trade) & books
Exempt from total amount:
Bible or other book containing sacred writings of a religion
Burial plots
Health aids
Retirement Accounts:
Tax-exempt retirement accounts, including 401(k)s, 403(b)s, profit-sharing and money purchase plans, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs, and defined-benefit plans
Traditional and Roth IRAs to $1,245,475 per person
Higher education savings plan trust account
Country & district employees
ERISA-qualified government or church benefits, including Keoghs, IRAs, & Roth IRAs
Firefighters
Judges
Police Officers
Law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel survivors
Municipal employees & elected officials, state employees
Retirement benefits to extent tax-deferred
Teachers
Benefits and Supports:
Alimony & child support
Crime victims' compensation
Medical assistance
Public assistance
Unemployment Compensation
Workers’ compensation
Insurance
Fraternal benefit society benefits
Life, health, accident, or annuity benefits, monies, policy proceeds & cash values due or paid to beneficiary or insured
Texas employee uniform group insurance
Texas public school employees group insurance
Texas state college or university employee benefits
Wages:
Earned but unpaid wages
Unpaid commissions not to exceed 25% of total personal property exemptions