Opinion
26283; CA 19703
Argued and submitted June 12, 1981
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and for remanded August 31, 1981
Appeal from Circuit Court, Deschutes County.
Walter I. Edmonds, Jr., Judge.
Craig P. Emerson, Redmond, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.
Brian J. MacRitchie, Bend, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Neil R. Bryant, and Gray, Fancher, Holmes Hurley, Bend.
Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warden and Warren, Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for reconsideration of the property division and spousal support. No costs to either party.
Husband appeals from a decree of dissolution, contending that the property division is so disproportionate that it is not a just and equitable division. As a part of the division of property, the decree awards wife a sum equal to one-half of the military retirement benefits presently being received by husband as and when he receives those benefits; no spousal support is awarded.
Subsequently to the argument of this case in this court, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 101 S Ct 2728, 69 L Ed 2d 589 (1981), which holds generally that military retirement benefits are the personal entitlement of the retiree and may not be divided in a dissolution proceeding.
Because neither the parties, nor the trial court, had an opportunity to consider McCarty, and because any significant change in the property division necessarily involves the appropriateness of an award of spousal support, we deem it appropriate to remand the case to the trial court to reconsider those portions of the decree in light of McCarty. Pearce and Pearce, 53 Or. App. 521, 632 P.2d 501 (1981).
No objection is made to those portions of the decree relating to custody of the minor children or their support; they are affirmed.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for reconsideration of the property division and spousal support. No costs to either party.