Supreme Court of Texas

The court of appeals correctly concluded that a 1981 divorce decree unambiguously awarded the non-employee spouse a percentage of the total amount of the benefits on the date of retirement, as opposed to a specific percentage of the retirement benefits valued at the date of divorce.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/24/2002
• Decided 06/27/2003
• Published 06/27/2003

Judges

• Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tonya P. Johannsen,Susan Lea Hays, Waters & Kraus, L.L.P., Dallas, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Warren Hryekewicz, James Hunter Birch, Hughes & Luce, Dallas, for respondent.