Coffman v. Coffman

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

Elvin Coffman (“Husband”) appeals from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Bates County dissolving his marriage to Sandra Coffman (“Wife”). Specifically, Husband challenges the trial court’s finding that Husband’s benefit payments from the General Motors pension fund, for which he was eligible as a result of being determined permanently and totally disabled, should be categorized as marital property. For the following reasons, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Husband and Wife were married on March 28, 1982, 1 and subsequently resided in Hume,…