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U. S. DEPT. OF AIR FORCE v. WILHELM

No. 1666.

555 S.W.2d 498 (1977)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF the AIR FORCE, Air Force Accounting and Finance Center, Appellant, v. Jeanne L. WILHELM, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

July 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Gough, U. S. Atty., Richard H. Parker, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Morton Hollander, Chief Appellate Section, William Kanter, Richard A. Olderman, Attys., Appellate Section, Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Joe C. Shaffer, Richard A. Powell, Thomas B. Taylor, Briscoe, Shaffer & Powell, Houston, for appellee.

COULSON, Justice.

This is a suit brought by the former wife of an Air Force officer seeking to garnish one-half of his retirement pay as satisfaction of a community property award made pursuant to a divorce decree rendered in 1969. Jeanne L. Wilhelm filed her application for writ of garnishment in the Court of Domestic Relations No. 3 of Harris County on September 25, 1975. Her suit was brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 659 (Supp. 1977), a federal statute which...

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