White v. Deal

BOWES, Judge.

This case is on appeal from a judgment of the trial court dismissing appellant’s dec-linatory exception of lack of subject matter jurisdiction and ordering that the defendant-appellant pay the plaintiff-appellee 35% of his military pension which accrued between 1963 and 1981, as “an equitable distribution of a marital asset under Florida law.” We affirm.

Plaintiff and defendant were married in 1962 and separated in 1981.- Daniel Deal served in the United States Marine Corps from 1960 through 1985, when he retired. During his military career, he maintained his domicile in his home…