Legal Opinion
Segrest v. Segrest
Texas Supreme Court
Decided April 13, 1983No. C-1818PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, Justice.
This is an appeal from a suit filed for a declaratory judgment by a former husband seeking a determination of the validity and enforceability of a portion of a 1974 divorce decree. The decree incorporated a property settlement agreement treating military retirement benefits as part of the community estate of the parties. The trial court determined that pre-1981 divisions of military retirement pay are void and unenforceable in light of the United States Supreme Court decision in McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 101 S.Ct. 2728, 69 L.Ed.2d 589 (1981). The court of appeals…
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