Davis v. Davis

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented by this appeal is the validity, vel non, of that portion of the trial court’s judgment in this divorce action wherein the court decreed to the wife a proportionate part of the serviceman husband’s future military retirement pay benefits which will not become payable to him under appropriate federal statutes until completion of twenty years’ service in 1983, or eleven years after the divorce decree. We hold that inasmuch as the rights of the husband to the retirement benefits provided by federal statutes had not been acquired at the…