Bangs, TX Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

If the original divorce decree stated that you were entitled to half of the retirement unless you remarried. And you remarried for a period of 2 1/2 years then it would seem under basic contract law that you are no longer entitled to half the retirement.

You can send the divorce paperwork to your husband's last known address. If that doesn't work, you will need to use local directories (White Pages, Spokeo, etc.) to attempt to find his new address. If that doesn't work, you may ask the court where you filed the divorce paper work for permission to have him served by publication in the news paper. Most courts will allow you to do this if you can show the steps you took to find your husband before making this request. 

Technically, at two years you've been married to your military husband long enough under Texas law to be entitled to a small portion of his military retired pay. However, until you've been married to him for ten years, the military finance center will not pay you directly. After two years of marriage you will be entitled to an award of roughly 5% of his monthly disposable net 20-year retired pay at his current grade, if, as and when he actually retires and receives it. You will be entitled to no medical or other dependent benefits after the divorce. In Texas you are not likely to get more than temporary spousal support (while a divorce case is pending) because you've been married for too short a time. It may be in your financial interest to stay married as long as possible.