Legal Opinion
Burnell v. Burnell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 28, 2012PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLevy, J.
[¶ 1] Franklin L. Burnell Jr. appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Bangor, Gunther, J.) granting Lynette Burnell’s motion to modify the parties’ 1989 divorce judgment. Franklin argues that the divorce judgment was unambiguous in awarding him his full military pension and that the court erred in determining otherwise and awarding a portion of his benefits to Lynette. We agree and vacate the judgment.
I. BACKGROUND
[¶ 2] Franklin and Lynette Burnell were divorced in an uncontested proceeding in 1989 after nineteen years of marriage. The divorce judgment (Kravchuk, /.), which…
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