Ethelbah v. Walker

OPINION

CARPENETI Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A husband appeals the property division in his divorce. He argues that the trial court erred in distributing a retirement survivor ship benefit by present value instead of by a qualified domestic relations order; in valuing a retirement health insurance benefit, an excavator machine, and two trucks; and in ordering recapture of marital income earned from his pension during the period of separation. The wife cross-appeals, arguing that the court erred in depriving her of the right to devise a pension survivorship benefit and in valuing a marital escrow…