Court of Appeals of Texas August 6, 1981, 6310 (Powell v. Powell)

OPINION

JAMES, Justice.

This is a case wherein the divorced former wife of a retired military man seeks to establish a one-half interest in her former husband’s military retirement pay.

James H. Powell and Ruth Ann Powell were married July 26,1942, while he was in the military service. He had entered military service on December 3, 1940. Mr. Powell served in the U.S.