Gloria B.S. v. Richard G.S.

ARSHT, Judge.

This is the Court’s decision after review of the legal memoranda submitted on the issue of whether or not the Workmen’s Compensation benefits received by the respondent, Richard G.S., are to be considered marital property subject to distribution pursuant to 13 Del.C. § 1513.

The respondent was injured on July 25, 1981, in an accident compensable under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of the State of Delaware. At the time of the accident the respondent was repairing the brakes of one of his employer’s trucks when a pneumatic cylinder exploded striking the respondent’s left side of…