Schober v. Schober

OPINION

Before BURKE, C.J., and RABINOW-ITZ, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ. BURKE, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether unused personal leave, which may be used or converted to cash by the person accruing it, is a marital asset for purposes of the court’s division of the parties’ property in an action for divorce. We hold that such leave is marital property and that the superior court erred in refusing to treat it as such in the case at bar.

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Wayne and Robyn Schober were divorced in 1983. At the time of the divorce Mr. Schober, an Alaska State Trooper, was owed over 400 hours of…