DIFFENDERFER v. DIFFENDERFER

No. 66221.

491 So.2d 265 (1986)

Patricia DIFFENDERFER, Petitioner, v. Richard L. DIFFENDERFER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia S. Tunnicliff and Georg N. Meros, Jr. of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Keith J. Kinderman, Tallahassee, for respondent.

Melvyn B. Frumkes and Cynthia L. Greene of the Law Offices of Frumkes and Greene, P.A., Miami, for The Florida Chapter of The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, amicus curiae.


ADKINS, Justice.

In reversing portions of the trial court's scheme of property distribution and support obligations in the dissolution proceeding of Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer, 456 So.2d 1214 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), the First District held that the husband's entitlement to retirement benefits could not properly be considered marital property subject to equitable distribution, and limited consideration of the benefits to a...

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