Vandiver v. Banks

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case arises from appellant Sandra S. Vandiver’s and appellee Ronald W. Banks’s divorce granted in California on May 27, 1982. Banks was a member of the U. S. Air Force and possessed a fully vested, nondisability military retirement pension. The California court approved the parties’ marital settlement agreement, which permitted that court to reserve jurisdiction over Banks’s Air Force retirement benefits; it subsequently incorporated the parties’ agreement into their divorce decree. Vandiver later moved to Missouri, and Banks to Lonoke County, Arkansas.

In 1990,…