Legal Opinion
Breen v. Breen
Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)
Decided March 13, 1985No. 04-83-00322-CVPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DIAL, Justice.
This is an appeal from a suit to divide military retirement benefits previously awarded to the husband in a prior suit for divorce.
Jerry Breen, appellant here, and Elizabeth Breen were divorced June 8, 1982. In the divorce decree all military retirement benefits of the husband were awarded to him. This was in compliance with McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 101 S.Ct. 2728, 69 L.Ed.2d 589 (1981), decided June 26, 1981. The Texas Supreme Court interpreted McCarty as holding that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution foreclosed the division of military…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- O'Connor v. O'Connor, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1985