Keefer v. Keefer

Defendant, Nancy L. Keefer, appeals as of right from a divorce judgment awarded plaintiff, Byron E. Keefer, on October 6, 1983, pursuant to a written opinion filed by the trial judge on July 26, 1983. The issue on appeal is whether the property settlement was fair and, more particularly, whether the trial court’s handling of plaintiffs pension benefits was equitable.

The parties were married in 1960. Each had been married before. Three children were born of their marriage, two of whom had become adults at the time of the divorce. The youngest, then age 14, was placed in his mother’s custody…