Terrell v. Terrell

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

Dolores M. Terrell, plaintiff, appeals from a judgment denying her claim for partition of military retirement benefits which she alleges were not disposed of in the divorce decree entered in 1973 terminating the marriage between her and defendant, Willie S. Terrell.

Defendant retired in 1964, on the basis of twenty years of service, and the parties stipulated that eighteen of those years were served while plaintiff and defendant were husband and wife. At the time of the divorce, January 17, 1973, defendant had been receiving retirement benefits for more than eight…