Wilder v. Wilder

Judgment was entered in this marriage dissolution proceeding on December 10, 1973. In dividing the property of the parties, the court awarded the respondent wife a portion of the appellant’s military pension which he would be eligible to receive upon retirement after June 1, 1975, provided that he reenlisted at the expiration of his current enlistment, as he indicated his intention of doing.

The parties were married in 1956, the year that the defendant enlisted in the Navy. The appellant’s pay at the time of the trial of this case was $1,031.25 per month and this is the monthly pay which he…