In Re the Marriage of Butler

This appeal involves the distribution of teacher retirement benefits as part of a marital estate. The intervenor appellant, Dale Butler, appeals the order of the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Flathead County, awarding one-half of the teacher’s retirement benefits of his deceased brother, Rodney Glenn Butler, to Rodney’s former spouse, Alberta Esther Butler, and the other half to Rodney’s estate. The court’s order is the result of a remand from an earlier appeal, prior to which order the retirement benefits were being paid to Dale Butler. We affirm the District Court’s award of one-half…