Danforth v. Danforth

EVANS, Justice.

The trial court awarded defendant’s former wife one-half of military retirement funds earned by his service in the Air Force during their marriage. This appeal results.

The defendant joined the Air Force in January, 1943, and in November, 1949, he married the plaintiff in Ohio. The parties were divorced in Kansas in January, 1963, and then remarried in Kansas in December of that year. In August, 1964, defendant retired from the Air Force, and he and the plaintiff moved to Texas where they again were divorced in May, 1967.

It is the defendants contention that the trial court…