Legal Opinion
McCarty v. McCarty
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 26, 1981No. 80-5PublishedCited by 810 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
A regular or reserve commissioned officer of the United States Army who retires after 20 years of service is entitled to retired pay. 10 U. S. C. §§ 3911 and 3929. The question presented by this case is whether, upon the dissolution of a marriage, federal law precludes a state court from dividing military nondisability retired pay pursuant to state community property laws.
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Although disability pensions have been provided to military veterans from the Revolutionary War period to the *212present,1 it was not until the War Between the States that Congress enacted the first comprehensive nondisability…
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