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To the editor:
The citizens of Virginia have a right to know that in a closed-door meeting members of the Subcomittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, Committee on Armed Services of the U.S. House of Representatives, voted to deny military wives, divorced before June 26, 1981, the right to go back into a state domestic relations court in order to petition for a pro-rata share of the pension they helped to earn.
Two of the 13 members of the Subcommittee, Congressman Owen Pickett (2nd District) and Congressman Herb Bateman (1st District), ranking Republican, voted with the majority thereby denying due process to certain long-term military wives cheated out of the pension they helped to earn.
Mr. Bateman obviously took the lead in promoting the discriminatory bill, since the American Retirees Assocation (an organization composed mainly of divorced military members and opposed to the most basic legal security for military wives) urged itsmembers in its most recent newsletter to write a letter to Mr. Bateman in order to thank him “for his support in terminating payments based on reopened divorce cases.”
The reason the American Retirees Association has manned the barricades on this issue is that some ex-military wives have successfully petitioned in certain states for a prorata share of the pensions they helped to earn. Lawfully constituted state domestic relations courts have
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