Dessommes v. Dessommes

GUITTARD, Justice.

Julia Dessommes sued Lawrence Des-sommes, her former husband, and his employer and two insurance companies, to establish her interest in one-half of his retirement benefits on the theory that his right to such benefits was community property which had vested before their divorce in 1963 and was not disposed of by the divorce decree. He defended on the grounds that the decree had awarded the benefits to him as his separate property, that her claim was barred by limitation, and that even if she still had an interest, she failed to establish its extent in view of contribu*676tions…