In Re Marriage of Garrett

GREENE, Chief Judge.

Respondent, Joanne Garrett, appeals from that portion of the trial court’s judgment in a dissolution of marriage case which declared the retirement benefit of $625 per month of petitioner, Kenneth Garrett, from the Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund, to be nonmarital property. Joanne contends that such declaration was erroneous, and caused a grossly disproportionate division of the marital property.

The Garretts were married 18 years. Kenneth had been employed as a truck driver by Yellow Freight Systems for 23 years, and, effective October 19, 1981, had retired for reason of…