Key legal question
Whether the pension equalization could be deferred to a later supplementary procedure because the retirement assets were pledged
Extracted holding
No. The divorce court had to decide the pension equalization in the same proceedings; a general deferral to a later procedure was unlawful.
Extracted reasoning
The principle of unity of the divorce judgment requires all ancillary effects to be decided together. The existing record was sufficient to determine the equalization, and no exceptional reason justified postponement.