Ex parte Boniface

GAMMAGE, Justice.

On May 26,1982, the 169th District Court in Bell County, Texas entered judgment partitioning the Civil Service Retirement HeneRfsTearned during the marriage of relator, Edwin C. Boniface, and his former wife, Marjorie N. Boniface. As a part of that judgment, the trial court ordered relator to pay Mrs. Boniface, from the date of the judgment, a portion of the retirement benefits as they were received by relator.

Relator timely perfected his appeal by filing a cost bond and that appeal is now pending before this Court as No. 13,776.

Relator now seeks habeas corpus relief from a…