Edwards v. Edwards

We have here the narrowest possible issue in an appeal from a divorce decree; it involves nothing more than the propriety of the division of the monthly pension of $165 which the husband, a retired longshoreman, has received since his retirement and will continue to receive from the International Longshoremen Warehousemen’s Union and the Pacific Maritime Association.

The husband, throughout the trial, was obsessed with the idea that this pension was his separate property and should come to him in its entirety. The trial court, after dividing-all of the rest of the property equally (and with…