Burns v. Burns

847 S.W.2d 23 (1993)

312 Ark. 61

Harold J. BURNS, Jr., Appellant,

v.

Janet L. BURNS, Appellee.

No. 92-863.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 15, 1993.

David L. Rush, Paris, for appellant.

Jeanne Anne Whitmire, Fort Smith, for appellee.

DUDLEY, Justice.

The primary issue in this divorce case is whether we continue to hold, as we did in Durham v. Durham, 289 Ark. 3, 708 S.W.2d 618 (1986), that the language of our marital property statute does not include nonvested military retirement benefits. We again construe the statute in the same way. The chancellor did not follow the Durham case, and, on that…