Tompkins v. Tompkins

Denise M. Tompkins appeals from a judgment of the Probate and Family Court revoking a domestic relations order entered over four years earlier that specified the bases upon which Denise’s interest in her former husband’s pension was to be determined.

Background. After thirty years of marriage, Robert W. and Denise M. Tompkins were divorced by a judgment of divorce *488nisi dated December 6, 1999, which became absolute on March 6, 2000. A probate judge approved a separation agreement of the parties dated August 14, 1999, that was incorporated in the divorce judgment, but survived the judgment “as…