Marriage of Haynes CA1/5

BACKGROUND

In May 2023 the Solano Superior Court entered a judgment dissolving David and Teletha Haynes’s nearly 28-year marriage.2 (In re Marriage of

1 Cal. Stds. Jud. Admin., § 8.1; Ct. App., First Dist., Local Rules of Ct.,

rule 19. 2 We use first names for ease of reference. (See In re Marriage of Smith (1990) 225 Cal.App.3d 469, 475–476, fn. 1.)

1 Haynes (Mar. 17, 2026, A172255) [nonpub. opn.].)3 Besides dissolving the marriage, the judgment apparently orders that part of Teletha’s benefits in the Federal Employees Retirement System is subject to equal division of the community estate by the standard mechanism: a qualified domestic relations order. (In re Marriage of Haynes, supra, A172255.) In March 2025 the court held one of several hearings on David’s request for order to enforce the judgment’s division of retirement benefits. David had counsel; Teletha did not. After the hearing, the court filed David’s proposed qualified domestic relations order as to Teletha’s federal Thrift Savings Plan benefits (TSP QDRO), which Teletha appeals, still representing herself, arguing the order’s division differs from the judgment’s. Though the appellate…