DESSOMMES v. DESSOMMES

No. 18237.

505 S.W.2d 673 (1973)

Julia K. DESSOMMES, Appellant, v. Lawrence F. DESSOMMES et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1974.

Second Rehearing Denied February 14, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Bryant, Dallas, for appellant.

Bertran T. Bader, III, Bader, Wilson, Menaker, Cox & Branson, Robert B. Cousins, Jr., Thompson, Coe, Cousins, Irons & Porter, Dallas, for appellees.


GUITTARD, Justice.

Julia Dessommes sued Lawrence Dessommes, her former husband, and his employer and two insurance companies, to establish her interest in one-half of his retirement benefits on the theory that his right to such benefits was community property which had vested before their divorce in 1963 and was not disposed of by the divorce decree. He defended on the grounds that the decree had awarded the benefits to him as his separate property, that her claim...

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