Vaughn v. Vaughn

PITTMAN, Judge.

After a marriage of 22 years, Cecilia R. Vaughn (“the wife”) brought an action in *943the Houston Circuit Court seeking a divorce from Thomas DeWayne Vaughn (“the husband”), asserting as grounds incompatibility of temperament and an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. She sought, among other things, an award of periodic alimony and, as a component of an equitable division of marital property, a portion of the husband’s armed-services-retirement benefits. The husband answered the complaint and asserted a counterclaim for a divorce on the same grounds. However, in her reply to…