Legal Opinion
Fern v. Turman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 10, 1984No. Nos. 82-4577, 82-4581PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWNING, Chief Judge:
Appellants are retired military officers. Both were required by divorce decrees to pay a fixed percentage of their military retired pay to their former wives as divisible community property under state law. Both ceased payments after the United States Supreme Court held in McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 101 S.Ct. 2728, 69 L.Ed.2d 589 (1981), that state courts were not free to divide retired military pay under community property laws.
The wives filed motions in the state courts to compel appellants to comply with the decrees. The husbands removed the cases to federal…
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- Ridgway v. RidgwaySupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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