Marriage of Tibbles, Matter of, 44936
| Decision Date | 06 July 1983 |
| Docket Number | No. 44936,44936 |
| Citation | 63 Or.App. 774,665 P.2d 1267 |
| Parties | In the Matter of the MARRIAGE OF Kenneth Alden TIBBLES, Respondent, and Diana Lee Tibbles, Appellant. ; CA A24561. |
| Court | Oregon Court of Appeals |
James M. Gillis, Newport, argued the cause and filed reply brief for appellant. With him on the brief was Litchfield, MacPherson, Carstens & Gillis, Newport.
S. David Eves, Corvallis, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent. With him on the brief was Ringo, Walton & Eves, P.C., Corvallis.
Before GILLETTE, P.J., and WARDEN and YOUNG, JJ.
Wife appeals from a decree of dissolution. The decree awarded custody of two children, ages 14 and 10, to wife and required husband to pay child support of $170 per month for each child and spousal support of $100 per month for a period of two years. The residence was awarded to wife. Husband was awarded a judgment lien against the house for $7,500, with interest, to be paid when the youngest child reaches 18 or when wife moves from the residence. He was also awarded his expected inheritance of $5,000 from his father's estate, which was still in probate at the time of the decree, and his vested but unmatured pension of undetermined value from his employment at Georgia-Pacific. Husband was made responsible for several debts, and wife was held responsible for the mortgage payments on the house. Personal property was divided between the parties.
Wife claims here that the trial court mistakenly refused to consider husband's military disability payments in setting spousal support and in dividing the marital estate. Had they been considered, she claims, she should have been awarded permanent spousal support of $300 per month, the residence free and clear of any judgment in favor of husband and husband's $5,000 inheritance. We agree that it was error to refuse to consider the disability pension for any purpose and, therefore, modify the decree.
The parties were married for 15 years. Husband's age is 36, wife is 33. Husband has worked for nine years at a Georgia-Pacific paper mill and takes home $765 a month after deductions, which include $220 to repay a loan of $4,050; his gross earnings for 1981 from his employment were $20,149. He is a high school graduate. He also moonlights at car repair, earning $20-$30 per month by his account and $80-$100 per month by his wife's. Husband lost the fingers of his right hand while he was in military service and receives a disability award from the Veterans' Administration of $593 per month. The record contains no evidence of the present value of his vested but unmatured pension from Georgia-Pacific. 1
Wife has worked for short periods at a variety of low-paying jobs. Her net income at the time of the trial, from part-time work at a rest home, was less than $400 per month; the gross earnings were about $100 per week. She has a G.E.D. certificate and took a 6-week course in key-punch operation but could not find work in that field.
We disagree with wife's contention that the present value of the sum of all the disability payments that husband expects to receive over his lifetime should be calculated and considered in dividing the marital property. Under McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 101 S.Ct. 2728, 69 L.Ed.2d 589 (1981), military retirement pensions could not be divided in dissolution proceedings. Since that time, as we noted in Smedley and Smedley, 60 Or.App. 249, 653 P.2d 267 (1982), Congress has enacted the "Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act." It allows courts to treat military retirement pay as...
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