Wolf, J.
Appellant, the former wife, challenges a final judgment of dissolution of marriage. She raises four issues on appeal. We find the trial court erred in calculating the marital portion of retirement pay for the purposes of equitable distribution. We affirm as to the other issues without comment.
ENTITLEMENT TO RETIREMENT PAY
Appellant argues the trial court erred when it incorrectly calculated the amount of appellees retirement pay appellant was entitled to receive as part of the equitable distribution of property. We agree.
To determine the amount of a retirement fund a party has accumulated during a marriage, a trial court must creat[e] a fraction where the numerator is the amount of time the employee was married while participating in the plan, and the denominator is the total time the employee has in the plan. The trial court then multiplies the plans present value by the coverture fraction to calculate the total present value of the retirement fund which accrued during the marriage. Fritz v. Fritz , 161 So.3d 425, 428-29 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) (quoting Trant v. Trant , 545 So.2d 428, 429 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989) ).
Here, the trial courts order is internally inconsistent in several regards, which requires reversal for a recalculation of the portion of the retirement fund that may be equitably distributed. First, the trial court found that appellees retirement base pay was $4,378 per month and that appellee had 24 years and 7 months of service. In a separate paragraph, the trial court also found that appellees retirement base pay was $4,078 per month and he had 24.5 years of service. The trial court utilized the $4,078 figure to calculate the amount of the equitable distribution. If this figure was incorrect, appellant has been shortchanged. These discrepancies need to be reconciled.
Additionally, the trial court deducted $817 per month from appellees asserted retirement base pay of $4,078 per month because that is the portion of appellees retirement appellees first wife is entitled to receive. However, elsewhere in the order the trial court calculated appellees first wifes portion of his retirement as $579.96 per month and found the $817 per month was child support appellee was required to pay for children from his previous marriage. Thus, it appears the trial court deducted the wrong amount from appellees asserted retirement base pay, potentially skewing the calculations in appellees favor. The trial court must also correct this discrepancy.
Lastly, the trial court erred in calculating the percentage of appellees retirement pay that appellant was entitled to receive when it miscalculated the length of the parties marriage. The trial court divided the total number of months of the marriage during which appellee was in the military by the total number of months appellee was in the military and then divided that number in half to ascertain the percentage of appellees retirement that appellant was entitled to receive. Thus, the court calculated that appellee was married to appellant for 23 months of the 295 months he served in the Navy, and appellant was entitled to 3.9% of appellees retirement pay.
Appellees total term of military service constituted 295 months, from July 1987 when he enlisted, to February 2012 when he retired, as the trial court indicated. However, the trial courts findings that the parties were married in March 2009, and appellee retired in February 2012, indicate the parties were married for roughly 35 months during which appellee was accruing pension benefits, not the 23 months the court used in its calculations.
The trial courts finding that appellant is entitled to 3.9% of appellees retirement pay is thus inaccurate. The calculation should have been 35 months divided by 295 months (divided by 2), which would have yielded an entitlement of roughly 5.9%-6.0% of appellees retirement pay.
Appellant also contends that it was error for the trial court to deduct the portion of appellees retirement going to appellees first wife when it calculated appellees monthly retirement pay. We disagree. Appellant is only entitled to the portion of appellees retirement benefits that appellee accumulated during the parties marriage. See Richardson v. Richardson , 900 So.2d 656, 660 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005). Since appellees first wife was already entitled to a portion of appellees retirement benefits via court order when the first marriage was dissolved, appellant cannot make a claim to the portion of the funds that were already allocated to appellees first wife.
Based on the trial courts error related to equitable distribution, we reverse that part of the trial courts order dealing with the financial responsibilities of the parties and remand to the trial court to readdress these issues in accordance with this opinion.
AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, and REMANDED .
Lewis and Rowe, JJ., concur.