Cousins v. Cousins

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

This is a divorce case in which the only question on appeal involves the effect of a prior Oklahoma divorce decree (between the parties) upon appellee’s military retirement benefits when said Oklahoma decree was silent as to the division of such benefits.

Appellee joined the United States Armed Forces in 1951, and after eight years in the service, he and appellant were married in Texas on April 2, 1959. After a period of eighteen months absence from the service from September of 1959 through March of 1961, appellee was on active duty in the army out of Fort Sill,…