DIANNE E. JONES, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Marie-Anne Nicole Grivet Johnson v. Johnson, 602 So. 2d 1348 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992)
  …l settled that a spouse’s entitlement to pension or retirement benefits must be considered a marital asset for purposes of equitably distributing marital property. Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer, 491 So. 2d 265 (Fla.1986). See also Hatcher v. Hatcher, 533 So. 2d 917 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988). In this case, neither party contends that the court did not consider Mr. Johnson’s pension a marital asset. They disagree, however, with how this asset was treated. Once a pension, or other type of retirement benefit, is conside…
• McREYNOLDS v. McREYNOLDS, 546 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989)
  …It is well settled that a spouse’s entitlement to pension or retirement benefits must be considered a marital asset for purposes of equitably distributing marital property. Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer, 491 So. 2d 265 (Fla.1986); Hatcher v. Hatcher, 533 So. 2d 917 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988). See also Smith v. Smith, 537 So. 2d 1021 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989); Tripp v. Tripp, 510 So. 2d 1109 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987); Howerton v. Howerton, 491 So. 2d 614 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986). The trial court, accordingly, erred in finding that the h…
• Morrill v. Morrill, 578 So. 2d 53 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991)
  …der should the wife encounter any administrative problem in the transfer. Contrary [*54] to the wife’s contention, we find no abuse of the trial court’s discretion in so distributing the only remaining marital asset of any value. Hatcher v. Hatcher, 533 So. 2d 917 (Fla. 2d DCA 1988). In addition to the one-third interest in the husband’s retirement fund, the trial court awarded the wife $500 per month permanent alimony and $500 per month rehabilitative alimony for two years with leave to apply for an extensi…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Jackson, 478 So. 2d 1054 (Fla. 1985)