Ellis v. Ellis

We granted certiorari to review the opinion of the Colorado Court of Appeals in which the designation of the parties is the same and which appears in 36 Colo. App. 234, 538 P.2d 1347.

The husband retired after 29 years of military service and not long after his commencement of a dissolution of marriage proceeding. The parties had been married for the last 20 years of his military duty. After his retirement, he was receiving both retirement pay and compensation from employment. The trial court took into consideration these two sources of income in ordering the husband to make payments to the…