PAULSEN v. PAULSEN

No. 80-109.

601 S.W.2d 873 (1980)

Mary Louise PAULSEN, Appellant, v. Gerald Richard Ray PAULSEN, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

July 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cearley, Gitchel, Bogard, Mitchell & Bryant, P.A., Little Rock, for appellant.

J. Victor Harvey, Little Rock, for appellee.


STROUD, Justice.

The question in this case is whether military retirement pay should be divided pursuant to Act 705 of 1979 as marital property at the time of divorce. We agree with the trial court that it should not.

Gerald and Mary Paulsen were married in Tennessee in 1956, just as he completed his basic training with the United States Air Force. During the course of their marriage they had two sons, one of whom, Greg, is moderately retarded. Soon after...

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