Massachusetts Appeals Court November 21, 1990, No. 89-P-600 (Crete v. Crete)

Dreben, J.

The question before us is whether a probate judge erred in dismissing the wife’s complaint for the division of a military pension where her divorce became final after the June 26, 1981 decision in McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210, 223, but before the effective date, February 1, 1983, of the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (Act). Public Law 97-252, codified in 10 U.S.C.