Legal Opinion
District of Columbia v. Gallagher
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 29, 1999No. 97-CV-1138PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Appellee Monica Gallagher is the former wife of the late David Norman, a retired judge of the Superior Court at the time of his death in 1995. After Judge Norman died, Ms. Gallagher submitted an application for a survivor annuity to the District of Columbia Office of Personnel. Her application was denied because she and Judge Norman had been divorced in 1987, and the Personnel Office concluded that it was not authorized to award survivor annuities to former spouses of government employees who were divorced before March 16, 1989, the effective date of the District of…
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