OPINION ON REHEARING
Earnest Lucian Vandiver contends on rehearing that we erred in upholding the trial court’s division of the marital estate, despite the miseharacterization of a significant amount of that property. We overrule E. L.’s motion for rehearing because the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the property division is just and right, notwithstanding any mischarac-terization of the property.
In a suit for divorce, the trial court is to order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage. TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. § 7.001 (Vernon, 1998). We interpret the court’s findings in this case to mean that the court would divide the property in the same way, finding that it is a just and right division, regardless of whether the property in question is separate or community. As we noted in our original opinion, E.L. has made no contention in this appeal that the trial court abused its discretion in making such a finding on the basis that the evidence is insufficient to support the finding or that the factors set forth in Murff v. Murff, 615 S.W.2d 696, 699 (Tex.1981), do not support the finding. In view of the trial court’s finding, E.L. has the burden on appeal to show that the trial court abused its discretion in making the just and right division. This he has failed to do.
E.L. contends that the trial court’s finding that the division is just and right, assuming the disputed property to be Joan’s separate property, conflicts with its finding that the division is just and right in the event the disputed property is really community property. Given the facts of this case, we hold that these findings are not in conflict because under the evidence the trial court could reasonably make both determinations.
E.L. argues on rehearing that he is challenging the factual sufficiency of the evidence, but he made no such assertion in his original brief. In any event, the trial court has broad discretion in dividing the estate of the parties, and that division should be corrected on appeal only when an abuse of discretion has been shown. See Murff, 615 S.W.2d at 698; Zieba v. Martin, 928 S.W.2d 782, 786 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1996, no writ). Under this standard, the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence are not independent grounds of error, but merely relevant factors in assessing whether the trial court abused its discretion. Zieba, 928 S.W.2d at 786. Our task is to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion by making a division that was manifestly unjust and unfair. See Dorfman v. Dorfman, 457 S.W.2d 417, 419 (Tex.Civ.App.—Texarkana 1970, no writ). We hold that in view of the evidence as we have outlined it in our original opinion, including the evidence of the large gifts made by Joan’s mother, the manner in which the parties treated those gifts, and evidence relating to the factors set forth in Murff, the trial court’s division of the property is consistent with *304the evidence and is not manifestly unjust and unfair. It was not unreasonable for the trial court to determine, based upon that evidence, that Joan should be awarded the property in dispute, with the remaining property divided as stated, even if the trial court were mistaken as to the separate or community nature of the property.
E.L. argues that the division was manifestly unjust because, in making the division, the trial court failed to include the disputed mischaracterized assets as part of the community. To the contrary, the trial court held that the property division was just and right, even if the disputed mis-characterized assets were considered part of the community.
E.L. asserts that by affirming the trial court’s judgment we have improperly imposed our own just and right division. However, it is the trial court, not this court, that found the division of the property just and right, notwithstanding any mischaracterization. E.L. relies upon Jacobs v. Jacobs, 687 S.W.2d 731 (Tex.1985). We find that case to be distinguishable. In Jacobs, the court of appeals had found that the trial court erred in making its determination of two reimbursement claims involved in the division of property and that it erred by mischaracterizing certain properties. Id. at 732. The court of appeals, although it appeared to have recognized that the error as to the reimbursement claim materially affected the division of the property, had modified the trial court’s property division by rendering judgment on the reimbursement claims and by limiting its remand to the specific properties found to have been mischarac-terized. Id. The supreme court held that where there is reversible error affecting the “just and right” division of the community estate, the court of appeals must remand the entire community estate for a new division. Id. at 733.
We find Jacobs to be distinguishable because, in that case, the court of appeals, apparently recognizing that the error materially affected the property division, altered the trial court’s just and right division when it remanded only a portion of the property division. In this case we have found that any error did not materially affect the property division, and we have not altered the trial court’s just and right division of the property.
E.L. asserts we erred in distinguishing McElwee v. McElwee, 911 S.W.2d 182 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1995, writ denied), on the basis that the trial court made no finding in that case that the division was just and right, despite any mis-characterization of the property. Although he cites footnote six of that opinion in support of his assertion, our examination of that footnote reveals nothing to show a finding that the division was just and right. If there was, it appears from his brief that the assertion stems from the personal knowledge of E. L.’s counsel, who asserts that he represented the appellant in McElwee. We do not consider any of this because it is all outside the record. In any event, there was no discussion in McElwee as to whether the trial court may hold its division of the property is just and right regardless of the characterization of certain assets. We see no reason to remand to the trial court for a just and right division when the trial court has already made a division that it has found to be just and right. If the court of appeals remanded in McElwee despite a just and right finding by the trial court, as E.L. suggests, it was not required to do so because the finding had already been made.
E.L. suggests that we should disregard the trial court’s finding that the division is just and right, despite any mischaracteri-zation of the property. He argues that, “when the trial court bases its ruling on erroneous legal conclusions, as a matter of public policy it should not be able to ratify its mistakes merely by reciting a finding of fact or conclusion of law that in essence says that: £[i]f I commit reversible error, you are not allowed to successfully appeal.’ ”
*305Of course, the trial court did not make such a finding. In cases in which there might be a mischaracterization of the property, the trial court, at the time it makes its division, might conclude that any possible mischaracterization would, or would not have, an effect on the just and right division, or it might not have an opinion concerning the matter. We do not accept E. L.’s assertion that in the event the trial court felt that its division would not be just and right despite any possible mischaracterization, or that if it did not have an opinion as to whether it was, that it would violate its oath of office and the code of judicial conduct by making a false finding solely to protect its record on appeal.
Assuming that the trial court may legitimately determine that the division is just and right, even if the disputed property is considered as community property, we must then determine, as we have previously stated, whether that division is manifestly unfair and unjust. At that point, the trial court’s error in making the mischar-acterization is, if relevant at all, only a factor to be considered in making that determination. Other than the mischarac-terization, E.L. makes no argument as to why the property division as announced by the court is unfair or unjust. While a mischaracterization of property could lead to a property division that is unfair and unjust, the facts as presented here support the trial court’s finding that the division is just and right, whether the disputed property is separate property or part of the community. Again, because E.L. has failed to show that the trial court’s division of the property is unfair and unjust, he has failed to show that the trial court abused its discretion in making that division. We overrule E. L.’s motion for rehearing.