Dividing pension benefits in any divorce can create conflict and tension. Service members and their spouses are often at odds when it comes to this issue. All 50 states treat military pensions as marital or community property and a state court can award a portion of military pension benefits to the spouse even in marriages that last less than a year. In this video, Steve Shewmaker and Alexa Lewis of the Law Firm Shewmaker & Lewis discuss what can happen in divorces where one party is the spouse of a service member.
