Blanchard v. Blanchard

The plaintiff, Phillip B. Blanchard, appeals the divorce decree recommended by the Marital Master (Peter J. Bourque, Esq.) and approved by the Superior Court (Groff, J.). The decree treats Phillip’s military retired pay as divisible property and awards the defendant, Judy G. Blanchard, fifteen percent of it. We affirm.

When Judy and Phillip married in October 1968, Judy was an office manager in a large corporation and Phillip was an officer in the Air Force. Phillip had already served in the military for fifteen years, and he continued to do so until 1983, approximately one year before *428the…