Weiss v. Weiss

A long-standing marriage of thirty-six (36) years was terminated under a petition for dissolution filed by the wife. Decretal provisions for maintenance, division of marital property, and attorney fees and costs of litigation incurred by the wife, coupled with an absence of specific findings of fact and conclusions of law by the trial court, prompted an appeal by the husband. The wife cross-appealed on the singular ground that the trial court erred in awarding her only 38.4% of the husband’s Federal Civil Service Retirement System benefits.

More specifically, the charges of error leveled by…