Pender v. Pender

Wendell L. Griffen, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Faulkner County Chancery Court holding that it lacked personal jurisdiction over appellee Paul Pender to divide his military pension, thus faffing to grant appellant Marianne Pender that portion of the pension that was marital property. We hold that the chancellor’s decision was not clearly erroneous. Therefore, we affirm.

The parties were originally married in 1972. They divorced in Mississippi County, Arkansas, in 1980. Some time later, the couple reconciled and lived together in a common-law marriage in Texas until June 1991…