Court Opinion

ID: 9933345
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:41:54.93907+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:59:47.442708
License: Public Domain

I concur in the result.
The wife in this case was awarded 25% of the retirement benefits vested in the husband as of the date the complaint for a divorce was filed. Although I agree with the essential point made by Judge Pittman in his special writing as it relates to the issue of retirement benefits in this case, the award of such benefits appears to have been faulty in a respect not addressed by Judge Pittman's writing. Although there was testimony indicating that the husband, if he retired immediately, would be entitled to begin drawing $3,924 per month in retirement benefits, there was no showing as to what portion of those benefits accrued during the parties' 20-year marriage, as opposed to during the approximately 10-year period of military service by the husbandprior to the marriage. This is an error of a nature which this court has held not to be remediable upon a remand.See Dunn v. Dunn, 891 So.2d 891 (Ala.Civ.App. 2004).