LINSON v. LINSON

No. 6875.

618 P.2d 748 (1980)

Colleen Ann LINSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gerald John LINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

Rehearing Denied November 14, 1980.

As Amended December 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blake T. Okimoto, Honolulu (Max Nakata Garcia, Honolulu, on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Dorothy N.W. Lamott, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HAYASHI, C.J., and PADGETT and BURNS, JJ.


BURNS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Decree Granting Absolute Divorce and Awarding Child Custody entered in favor of the plaintiff-wife on September 20, 1977.

There is one issue: Whether the trial court erred in ruling that a nonvested federal military retirement benefit which was eighteen-twentieths (18/20) earned but which was worthless until it was twenty-twentieths (20/20) earned was divisible in a divorce action.

The parties married on February...

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