Legal Opinion
Hagen v. Hagen
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 1, 2009No. 07-1065PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.
Doris and Raoul Hagen’s 1976 divorce decree awarded a percentage of Raoul’s military retirement pay to Doris to be paid if, as, and when he received it. After Raoul’s subsequent retirement from the Army, he was determined by the Veterans’ Administration (VA) to have a service-connected disability. He then elected to be paid VA disability benefit payments, which are not subject to federal income taxes, in place of part of his military retirement payments, which are subject to income taxes.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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