STEPHENS v. STEPHENS

No. 11985.

595 P.2d 1196 (1979)

Oscar W. STEPHENS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joyce STEPHENS, Respondent-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

May 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coors, Singer & Broullire, Robert N. Singer, Albuquerque, for respondent-appellant.

Rowley, Hammond, Rowley & Tatum, Richard R. Rowley, II, Clovis, for petitioner-appellee.

Margaret Young, Martha C. Salvant, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae WEAL Fund.


OPINION

McMANUS, Senior Justice.

This appeal arises from a judgment granting a dissolution of marriage and a division of property.

Colonel Stephens, petitioner-appellee, and Mrs. Stephens, respondent-appellant, were married on June 26, 1954 in Coldwater, Michigan. At the time of the marriage, Colonel Stephens was attending the University of Tennessee Dental School. He entered the United States Air Force after graduation, and, except for a brief period...

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