Court Opinion

ID: 9789296
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:33:34.626834+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:21.390195
License: Public Domain

JONES, J.,
dissents:
{1 In my humble opinion, veteran's disability compensation camnot be considered income for purposes of calculating child support. Although Dye v. White, 1999 OK CIV APP 20, 976 P.2d 1086 flatly states such compensation is properly included in gross income when calculating child support, that opinion is the solitary pronouncement on the subject in Oklahoma jurisprudence. My brethren in the third division are in error in my opinion, and until instructed to do so by the court of last resort in Oklahoma jurisprudence, I will recede from that pronouncement.
T2 Military disability payments are designated to compensate a former serviceman or woman for permanent injuries inflicted while the officer or enlisted person is serving his country. It is compensation for presumably permanent partial or total loss of bodily funetion received in the armed services. In no way is it income in the ordinary sense. It is not enough that a totally disabled veteran share his social security income with his children? The jurisprudence of this state need not leave veterans so destitute. They deserve better.