Yeo v. Yeo

OPINION

KLINGEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal arising out of a summary judgment proceeding involving a suit for partition of military retirement benefits. Norman R. Yeo, appellee, and Doris B. Yeo, appellant, were married on January 17, 1940, and were divorced on September 3, 1964. Appellee served in the armed forces for all but the last few months of the marriage. He retired from the United States Air Force on April 23, 1964, at the age of fifty-nine with the rank of lieutenant colonel and has received military retirement benefits from that date until the present.

On July 11, 1964, at a time…