Gentry v. Gentry

James A. McLarty, III, Special Justice.

This is a divorce case. The parties resolved by stipulation all issues except the two in dispute. The wife claimed alimony and a marital interest in the husband’s civil service retirement benefits. The chancellor denied the wife alimony and held that the retirement benefits were not marital property. We disagree and reverse.

The parties married in 1949. The wife worked outside the home until 1961. The husband, an attorney, spent his final professional years as an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration. A portion of the husband’s…