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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bennett finds the lower court properly dismissed a husband’s petition to modify a division of assets in this matter of divorce. The lower court ordered the wife to receive $1646 per month from the husband’s military retirement. Four years after the final order was entered, which stipulated there would be no modification, the husband petitioned to have the amount modified. The husband argues that according to the Defense Finance Accounting Service, the wife is entitled to 27 percent of his monthly military retirement, which would be $507, and the remainder of the ordered amount should be considered alimony and subject to modification. But the lower court did not order the payment as alimony, rather, the funds were a division of assets and therefore not subject to modification. The instant court finds no error in the lower court’s dismissal. Affirmed.