Cardona v. Cardona

Wife appeals from a general judgment of dissolution, challenging the trial court’s division of husband’s military pension. We conclude that the trial court erred in its division of the military pension and reverse and remand the judgment for reconsideration under the correct legal standard.

The parties met in 1984, when they were both in the military. They began living together one year before they married in 1989. Husband was in the Navy and he continued to serve until 2006, when he retired and began to receive military pension benefits.

The parties had been married for over 23 years when they…