Court Opinion

ID: 9777759
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:23:41.130357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:27.441002
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COMBS, Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion, and would hold that appellee’s workers’ compensation award was marital *464property to which appellant would be entitled to share.
Appellee became disabled and received a total-permanent disability award during his marriage to appellant. It is true that most of the bi-weekly payments will be payable after the dissolution of the marriage. However, his right to receive these benefits became vested during the marriage, just as much as would haye his right to receive retirement benefits which became vested during the marriage. To distinguish this factual situation from retirement income or from lump sum compensation payments is a distinction without a difference.