Pacheco v. Quintana

OPINION

GARCIA, Judge.

Respondent appeals from the trial court’s finding that military retirement benefits had not previously been divided, and that petitioner was entitled to her communal share of benefits from the date her Petition to Divide undivided community property was filed. Petitioner cross-appeals from the court’s refusal to award retirement benefits prior to the date her petition was filed.

FACTS

Prior to the parties’ marriage, respondent spent four years in the armed services. The parties married in 1959, and in 1962 respondent decided to make the military his career and re-enlisted…