Legal Opinion
Rice v. Rice
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided May 5, 1982No. 13496PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPARD, Justice.
This is an appeal from a decree of divorce in which the wife was awarded a community property interest in the husband’s military retirement pay. The sole issue presented here is whether it was correctly determined that military retirement pay can constitute community property, capable of being apportioned in part to a spouse upon divorce. We reverse.
David Rice entered the United States Air Force in 1942. He and Florence Rice were married in Kansas in 1949. They lived at military stations throughout North America until he retired from the Air Force in 1967 in Illinois.…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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3Cited by22 opinions
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