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CourtListener opinion 1652731

Date unknown · US

Extracted case name
pending
Extracted reporter citation
968 S.W.2d 947
Docket / number
06-97-00055-CV
QDRO relevance 5/5Retirement relevance 5/5Family-law relevance 5/5gold label pending
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Machine-draft public headnote: CourtListener opinion 1652731 is included in the LexyCorpus QDRO sample set as a public CourtListener opinion with relevance to QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues. The current annotation is conservative: it identifies source provenance, relevance signals, and evidence quotes for attorney/agent retrieval. It is not a Willie-approved legal headnote yet.

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Category: QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues

Evidence quotes

QDRO

Ireland, Carroll, Kelley, Tyler, for appellant. Paul Hoover, Paul D. Hoover & Associates, Texarkana, for appellee. Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and GRANT and ROSS, JJ. OPINION ROSS, Justice. Maurice McLaurin appeals from an order interpreting an agreed Qualified Domestic Relations Order dividing military retirement benefits with his former wife, Shirley. The relevant facts in this case are as follows. ♦ Maurice joined the Air Force in 1954. ♦ Maurice married Shirley in 1957. ♦ Maurice and Shirley divorced in 1982. He agreed to pay her $450.00 per month in contractual alimony until she remarried. At that time, the United States Suprem

retirement benefits

l Hoover, Paul D. Hoover & Associates, Texarkana, for appellee. Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and GRANT and ROSS, JJ. OPINION ROSS, Justice. Maurice McLaurin appeals from an order interpreting an agreed Qualified Domestic Relations Order dividing military retirement benefits with his former wife, Shirley. The relevant facts in this case are as follows. ♦ Maurice joined the Air Force in 1954. ♦ Maurice married Shirley in 1957. ♦ Maurice and Shirley divorced in 1982. He agreed to pay her $450.00 per month in contractual alimony until she remarried. At that time, the United States Supreme Court had held that a spouse had no

domestic relations order

arroll, Kelley, Tyler, for appellant. Paul Hoover, Paul D. Hoover & Associates, Texarkana, for appellee. Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and GRANT and ROSS, JJ. OPINION ROSS, Justice. Maurice McLaurin appeals from an order interpreting an agreed Qualified Domestic Relations Order dividing military retirement benefits with his former wife, Shirley. The relevant facts in this case are as follows. ♦ Maurice joined the Air Force in 1954. ♦ Maurice married Shirley in 1957. ♦ Maurice and Shirley divorced in 1982. He agreed to pay her $450.00 per month in contractual alimony until she remarried. At that time, the United States Suprem

Source and provenance

Source type
courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
Permissions posture
public
Generated status
machine draft public v0
Review status
gold label pending
Jurisdiction metadata
US
Deterministic extraction
reporter: 968 S.W.2d 947 · docket: 06-97-00055-CV
Generated at
May 14, 2026

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Clean opinion text

968 S.W.2d 947 (1998) 
 Maurice W. McLAURIN, Appellant, 
v. 
Shirley Ann McLAURIN, Appellee. 
 No. 06-97-00055-CV. 
 Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana. 
 Argued April 14, 1998. 
 Decided May 21, 1998. 
 Deborah J. Race, Ireland, Carroll, Kelley, Tyler, for appellant. 
 Paul Hoover, Paul D. Hoover & Associates, Texarkana, for appellee. 
 Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and GRANT and ROSS, JJ. 
 
 OPINION 
 ROSS, Justice. 
 Maurice McLaurin appeals from an order interpreting an agreed Qualified Domestic Relations Order dividing military retirement benefits with his former wife, Shirley. The relevant facts in this case are as follows. 
 ♦ Maurice joined the Air Force in 1954. 
 ♦ Maurice married Shirley in 1957. 
 ♦ Maurice and Shirley divorced in 1982. He agreed to pay her $450.00 per month in contractual alimony until she remarried. At that time, the United States Supreme Court had held that a spouse had no right to any portion of the other *948 spouse's military retirement benefits; Congress thereafter changed the law.