BROWN v. BROWN

No. 90-CA-0071.

574 So.2d 688 (1990)

Betty Louise BROWN v. Ralph Nayland BROWN.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith R. Raulston, Heidelberg & Woodliff, Jackson, Darryl A. Hurt, Jr., Hurt & Hurt, Lucedale, Michael E. Wright, Akerman Senterfitt & Eidson, Orlando, Fla., for appellant.

Karl R. Steinberger, Bryant Colingo Williams & Clark, Pascagoula, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and BLASS, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

In this case, the ex-wife of a retired Naval officer belatedly seeks an equitable division of her former husband's military retirement pension and claims she can avoid the bar of res judicata by an express reservation written into the 1982 consent decree of divorce. We have examined the reservation and find that, in light of Mississippi law, it preserved to the wife no rights she may enforce at this time.

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