In Re the Marriage of Cooper

Robert Cooper appeals from the decree of the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County, dissolving his marriage to Linda Cooper and distributing marital assets. We affirm.

When the parties met in 1979, Robert was a Master Sergeant in the United States Army with a wife and three children living in Georgia. Robert had been in the service for approximately eighteen years at that time. Linda had two sons from a previous marriage. Robert and Linda resided together sporadically beginning in October of 1979. Upon his retirement from the military in November 1981, Robert returned…