Taggart v. Taggart

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice.

This appeal concerns the nature of military retirement benefits of an enlisted man in the United States Naval Fleet Reserve. Ann Taggart brought this action in the court below against her former husband, George Taggart, to partition military retirement benefits. The partition suit was filed more than seven years after the divorce decree was entered. Trial was before the court without a jury. Judgment was entered in favor of Ann Taggart and it provided that she receive four-ninths of all Navy retirement benefits received by George Taggart from April 1, 1974, and for so…