IN RE MARRIAGE OF MacDONALD

No. 51224-8.

104 Wn.2d 745 (1985)

709 P.2d 1196

In the Matter of the Marriage of JAMES H. MacDONALD, Respondent, and JOAN C. MacDONALD, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

November 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacobs & Jacobs, by Tom Jacobs, for appellant.

DeMers & Thomson, Inc., P.S., by Harrison H. DeMers, for respondent.


DURHAM, J.

The primary issue raised in this appeal is if the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act applies to the division of "military retired pay" in this dissolution decree. This decree was filed during the period in which McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 69 L.Ed.2d 589, 101 S.Ct. 2728 (1981) prohibited the division of military retired pay, but was on appeal when the protection act, which allows the division of...

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