{"id":2177,"date":"2021-10-07T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2021-10-04T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T23:42:12","slug":"ex-husband-denied-share-of-ex-wifes-military-retirement-years-after-texas-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/ex-husband-denied-share-of-ex-wifes-military-retirement-years-after-texas-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-husband Denied Share of Ex-Wife&#8217;s Military Retirement Years After Texas Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2090 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-543681178\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/iStock-543681178-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\" \/>Many assets divided in a Texas divorce are distributed during or soon after the divorce, but some assets, such as retirement benefits, may not be distributed for many years. Issues involving retirement benefits may continue or arise several years after the divorce is final. A Texas appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/second-court-of-appeals\/2021-02-20-00332-cv.pdf?ts=1632453817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently<\/a> decided a dispute involving retirement benefits between parties who divorced in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties were in the military when they divorced.\u00a0 The stipulated final divorce decree divided the husband\u2019s retirement benefits equally between them and awarded the wife 100% of her \u201cretirement plan\u201d or other benefits resulting from her employment.<\/p>\n<h3>Husband Argues He Agreed to Divorce Decree While Under Duress<\/h3>\n<p>The wife petitioned for a clarification of the division of the husband\u2019s military retirement in 2017. The husband argued he agreed to the property division under duress because the wife had threatened to tell his superiors he was having an affair if he did not agree. He claimed he only agreed because he was concerned he would face a court martial or negative effects on his chances of promotion if she reported him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/ex-husband-denied-share-of-ex-wifes-military-retirement-years-after-texas-divorce\/#more-2177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many assets divided in a Texas divorce are distributed during or soon after the divorce, but some assets, such as retirement benefits, may not be distributed for many years. Issues involving retirement benefits may continue or arise several years after the divorce is final. A Texas appeals court recently decided a dispute involving retirement benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,56,140],"tags":[213,432,431,5,319,57,75,354,433,328,318],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-military","category-property-rights","tag-appeal","tag-collateral-attack","tag-disposable-retired-pay","tag-divorce-2","tag-husband","tag-military","tag-property-division","tag-retirement-benefits","tag-spouses","tag-texas-family-code","tag-wife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-husband Denied Share of Ex-Wife&#039;s Military Retirement Years After Texas Divorce &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; 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