Whenry v. Whenry

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rule announced in case overruling previous cases holding mihtary retirement pay to be community property held not retroactive because attorneys and courts had rebed on previous rule
• “To permit and in fact encourage the relitigation of property interests long after the issues were supposedly settled would merely serve to reopen old wounds and create new ones.”
• applying criteria set out in Linkletter
• adopting the approach of Chevron Oil

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