Trotter v. Trotter

YELVERTON, Judge.

Following a divorce between the Trotters in Louisiana, a suit was filed for a judicial partition of property. This appeal concerns only one issue arising out of that partition suit: the ownership of the husband’s military retirement benefits. The trial court, finding that the husband was domiciled in Alabama, a noncommunity property state, throughout his military career, held that the military retirement benefits were his separate property. The wife appealed. We affirm.

Some of the facts are not disputed. The husband, Trotter, was a domiciliary of Alabama when he enlisted in…