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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