Legal Opinion
Armstrong v. Armstrong
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided April 7, 1987No. 864DC748PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREENE, Judge.
After a one-year separation, plaintiff brought this action on 14 May 1984 for divorce and equitable distribution of the parties’ marital property. Defendant also requested absolute divorce but asserted, among other things, that N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 50-20(b)(l) was unconstitutionally amended in 1983 to reclassify his vested military pension as marital property. Defendant’s motion to dismiss the suit because of such unconstitutionality was denied by the trial court.
The trial court heard the case without a jury. In connection with its grant of absolute divorce, the court stated in…
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