Krapf v. Krapf

The defendant appeals from a declaratory judgment entered by a judge of the Probate and Family Court requiring the defendant to pay to the plaintiff the equivalent of fifty per cent of the military retirement pension that the defendant would have received from the Department of Defense if the defendant had not waived his entitlement to the same by accepting disability benefits from the Veterans’ Administration. The defendant argues that the judge committed error because the judgment constitutes a disposition of his veterans’ disability benefits in violation of Federal law and modifies the…