Simmons v. Simmons

AKIN, Justice.

The principal question on this appeal is whether long-term monthly disability benefits provided by an employer and payable to a former husband after divorce are community property. We hold that these benefits are community property because the right to the payments was part of the husband’s compensation for services during marriage. Accordingly, we affirm.

Appellant Simmons was a pilot for Delta Airlines. He commenced his employment with Delta on July 9, 1956, and married appellee in Kansas on July 16,1960. Appellant became a participant in the Delta Pilots Disability and…