Court of Appeals of Washington August 5, 1985, 13873-1-I (In Re the Marriage of Giroux)

Webster, J.

In this case we are asked to decide whether the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) provisions for retroactivity entitle Rose Giroux to relief from her amended dissolution decree, entered during the 20-month period when federal law prohibited state

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courts from treating military pensions as community property.