In Re the Marriage of Dessauer

We here review the trial court's present authority to divide or consider military nondisability retired pay in dissolution proceedings. We reverse the equal division of the pension in the Dessauer case and affirm the trial court's consideration of the husband's retirement income as an economic circumstance when awarding prop erty in the Salerno case.

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Kurt and Hedwig Dessauer were married in 1957. Mr. Dessauer is retired from the United States Army and receives military nondisability retired pay. In dissolution proceedings the parties agreed to a property division except for the military…