In Re the Marriage of Parks

Edward Parks appeals a court order reopening a dissolution decree and entering judgment awarding his former spouse a share of his military pension.

The issues on appeal are: (1) whether res judicata prevents reopening the final decree of dissolution on the basis of the later enacted Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act, 10 U.S.C. § 1408; (2) whether military retirement pay is property subject to division; and (3) whether the military spouse who appears in the original dissolution proceeding without objection to the court's jurisdiction, and seeks affirmative relief dividing…