Legal Opinion
In Re Marriage of Thomas
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 30, 1984No. Civ. 26804PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WORK, J.
Contending all state court judgments dividing military retirement benefits as community property which became final before June 26, 1981, the date Congress expressly declared the states may treat such funds according to laws of their jurisdictions 1 are void because of federal preemption, Billy J. Thomas attempts to appeal an unappealable order of the superior court finding him guilty of contempt for intentionally refusing to pay his former wife monthly portions of his military retirement as ordered by a final judgment of dissolution. We treat his appeal as a request for…
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