Legal Opinion
Flora v. Flora
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided February 17, 1992No. 90-178-APublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHEA, Justice.
This matter comes before the Supreme Court on the wife’s appeal from a Family Court justice’s dismissal of her complaint requesting an amendment to a final divorce order. We affirm.
On February 17, 1983, a final judgment of divorce that was entered in the Rhode Island Family Court ended the marriage of Elza and Natalie Flora (hereafter Elza and Natalie). The divorce decree contained a property settlement but made no provision for the distribution of Elza’s military pension. The military pension had not been divided upon entry of final judgment of divorce in 1983 because of…
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