A A Brief History of Military Retirement Benefits in Divorce Litigation

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The FLS previously proposed 8 and reasserts here that joint physical custody should not be considered by the trial court, unless the child resides with or is under the direct care and unsupervision of a parent for at least 40% of the time. Further, the trial court should not consider an anomaly occurring in one specific year - for example, leap year, illness, emergency or other exigency transiently altering the timeshare; the purpose of the 40% threshold is to define a base and ensure that each parent is routinely the custodian of a child for a meaningful and significant period of time. bsp;   x = the resulting spousal percentage of the military retirement benefits at the member’s actual retirement, payable to the former spouse. If the matter proceeds to litigation, the forum State will have to rule on where the military member is actually a "resident" and "domiciled." This can be far harder than it appears, especially since States diverge radically on the meaning of those terms. In some places "residence" is a physical question of location at the time of filing, while "domicile" is that permanent home "to which one returns."1 In other places, the meanings are reversed.2 In some States, residence and domicile have the same meaning.3 A service member who has close connections to more than one State will still only have one domicile.4 If the service member has significantly more connections to one State than another, then the State to which he has closer ties is his domicile.5 The CRDP category of pay is "subject to collection actions" for alimony, child support, community property divisions, etc., so the net effect in terms of former spouses should be the gradual erasure of the reduction that the spouses experienced when the retirees elected to take disability awards. When Congress next amended the Act in 1990, it did nothing to address the Mansell holding. Thus, Mansell is often read to stand for the proposition that the subject matter jurisdiction of the state divorce courts is limited to division of "disposable retired pay." This may be less important than was thought at the time, however, since courts have widely expressed a willingness to consider the impact of disability or other benefits not included in the definition of "disposable retired pay" when dividing assets between spouses. The next year, in Gemma v. Gemma,5 this Court turned to the issues of PERS retirement benefits in the context of divorce. The Court reiterated that Nevada law permits the division of unvested retirement benefits, and discussed the two possible methods of distributing a spouse’s share of those benefits, by way of determining the present value of the pension and awarding half to each Under ICARA, the court hearing a Hague Convention case is specifically empowered to "take or cause to be taken measures under Federal or State law, as appropriate, to protect the well-being of the child involved or to prevent the further removal or concealment before the final disposition of the petition."2 The father had four children; two by one relationship, two by another. The first wife requested the district court to award her child support for her two children in accordance with the child support formula. The district court awarded the first wife 25 percent provided in NRS 125B.070. The father had requested the court apply the formula percentage for four children, which was 31 percent, and divide that by four to get his support. Unfortunately, the order so stating was not published, and is therefore not formally citable as authority,4 but there is no reason to expect any different ruling the next time the matter goes up on appeal. Arizona terminates community property accruals, for the most part, on the date of filing and service of a petition for divorce.2 There, on the same facts, the math would be 10.5 (years of marriage) ¡Â 20 (years of service) x .5 (spousal share) x $1,000 (pension payment) = $262.50. The only practical method of ameliorating this risk would appear to be through private insurance.1 The problem is that few service members carry significant sums of secondary private insurance. This reality has caused some to suggest using the State Bar fee dispute mechanism as an alternative route to determining fees owed and obtaining a judgment. However ¨C at least the way things are today ¨C that system is so dysfunctional that it is not a viable mechanism for such disputes, making the suggestion at best illusory, and at worst hypocritical. The original 1992 committee exhaustively reviewer the legislative history leading up to the adoption of the Nevada child support guidelines, and noted: Both family court judges acknowledged the tension between the stipulated decree's joint physical custody provision and its original residential timeshare provision. They resolved the tension by giving priority to the parties' overarching agreement to share joint legal and physical custody. The elasticity in the original timeshare provision, which gave the father such additional time "as agreed to by the Parties" beyond his specifically allotted time, makes this reading fair. It gives effect to all of the stipulated decree's provisions, and it is consistent with the parties' apparent intent and their frank, on-the-record admissions that neither believed the other was a bad parent, their dispute being mainly over money and scheduling. Dicta relating to a frequently argued subject of dividing income during the pendency of a divorce. The wife argued that husband should have paid attorney’s fees to offset the monies the husband withdrew from the business for post separation expenditures. The Court noted that nothing in the record suggested an absolute entitlement on the part of the wife to any portion of the funds. 5. Offset resulting amounts under subd. 4. against each other. The parent with a greater child support obligation is the shared-placement payer. The shared-placement payer shall pay the lesser of the amount determined under this subd. or the amount determined using the appropriate percentage standard under s. DCF 150.03 (1). If the shared-placement payer is also a low-income payer, the child support obligation may be the lesser of the amount determined under this subd. or under sub. (4). The Court noted that the husband’s own admissions that the wife was not fully informed of all material facts relating to the practice. The Court held that the wife was entitled to show that the division of the husband’s law practice was not provided for in the settlement agreement. The Court remanded and directed that the wife was not required to prove that the law practice was fraudulently omitted, but simply that practice was not disposed of in the divorce. Second, there is the "default" - what would happen if the court deemed the former spouse to be the SBP beneficiary, at the full base amount, but took no steps to alter the ramifications of that election. The spouse would be "over-secured," to a greater or lesser extent." The smaller the lifetime interest of the former spouse happened to be, the larger the share ofthe premium that the member would pay253 If the member died first, payments to the spouse would increase from $233.75 to $550. If the spouse died first, payments to the member would increase from $701.25 to $1,000. Washington goes along with the methodology of those two States, when the disability exists at the time of retirement. Alabama seems to lean against compensating a spouse when the disability benefits exist at the time of divorce, but has not spoken as to post-divorce recharacterization. This is where the complications and illogic come in. Presume three identical divorces on the same day. In the first case, the attorney, who knew almost nothing about military retirement benefits law, did not even know there was an SBP to allocate. The second knew that something had to be done, and so put a statement in the Order verifying that the former spouse was to be the beneficiary. The third not only knew to secure the right, but knew about the deemed election procedure, sent the required notice in, etc. This Court’s resolution of this appeal should include the direction that when dividing retirement benefits, absent findings of a compelling reason under NRS 125.150(1)(b) to do otherwise, if only one survivorship interest requires the payment of a premium, that premium cost should presumptively be divided between the spouses as part of the equal division of their property. The exceptions and anomalies to this line of cases are few and far between. In 1997, the Kansas Court of Appeals heard and decided In re Marriage of Pierce,5 a "double-divorce" The problems with retirement benefits orders that are badly drafted, or not drafted at all, got an increasing amount of attention, and was made the subject of the Advanced Track seminar at the annual meeting of the Nevada State Bar Family Law Section at Ely in March. PAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> Second, each year the COLA for such members is less than for other retirees (Consumer Price Index adjustment minus one percent). However, at age 62, the retiree’s monthly income is recomputed to supply the sum that  would have been paid if the full COLA had been applied every year from retirement to age 62, which at that moment becomes prospectively payable, as if there had not been reductions during those intervening years.  30 After that "restoral," however, the reduction returns with each COLA after age 62 for life. The statutory scheme makes it clear that only the State with CEJ can determine that there is no significant connection remaining. So it simply makes no sense for lawyers to continue filing motions asking our courts to determine that some other State should not exercise its CEJ. The only thing that could be asked of our Court is the factual determination that all relevant persons do not reside in the State issuing the earlier order; if any other basis for changing or relinquishing jurisdiction is required, the request must be made in the State issuing the earlier order. 3. To determine the adjusted child support obligation of each parent, the adjusted combined child support obligation shall be divided between the parents in proportion to their respective adjusted gross incomes. The discussion below basically concerns "regular" retirement, although most of it also applies to those cases in which a member takes a 15 to 20 year TERA ("early out") retirement. The many cases that have considered extraordinary visitation as a deviation factor have echoed this test: a deviation may not be had unless there is evidence that the extended visitation has a concrete economic impact on the non-custodial parent and the custodial parent. Turinsky v. Long, 910 P.2d 590 (Alaska 1996); Renfro v. Renfro, 848 P.2d 803 (Alaska 1993) (adjustment based on expenses incurred during visitation should at least be considered by court, even if deviation is not ultimately granted); Pridgeon v. Pridgeon, 632 So. 2d 257 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994) (child'S extended visitation with father can be considered in making award where extended stays have the effect of reducing the custodial parent's expenses); Marmaduke v. Marmaduke, 640 N.E.2d 441 (Ind. Ct. App. 1994) (where father had custody close to 50%, proper to deviate to compensate for added expenses); Terpstra v. Terpstra, 588 N.E.2d 592 (Ind. ct. App. 1992) (close to 50% custody warranted deviation where there was evidence concerning noncustodial parent's expenses); In re Marriage of Gray, 18 Kan. App. 2d 15, 846 P.2d 944 (1993) (court may deviate for extensive visitation); Remson v. Remson, 672 So. 2d 409 (La. Ct. App. 1996) (court would reduce father's obligation because of economic impact of extended visitation); Brazan v. Brazan, 638 So. 2d 1176 (La. Ct. App. 1994) (where father had child 50% of the time, court would deviate to account for such arrangement, since father paid for child care and medical insurance); Montet v. Montet, 629 So. 2d 538 (La. Ct. APP· 1993) Goint custooy is reason for deviation where the parents contribute equally in the day-to-day care of the child); Hoffman v. Hoffman, 870 S.W.2d 480 (Mo. Ct. App. 1994) (noncustodial father not entitled to reduction in support, despite claim that children were with him 36% of the time, where there was no evidence concerning economic impact); Kappelmann v. Kappelmann, 218 A.D.2d 698, 630 N.Y.S.2d 555 (1995) (father entitled to adjustment in support for summer months children spent with him); Narvae v. Freestone, 281 N.J. Super. The FLS previously proposed 8 and reasserts here that joint physical custody should not be considered by the trial court, unless the child resides with or is under the direct care and unsupervision of a parent for at least 40% of the time. Further, the trial court should not consider an anomaly occurring in one specific year - for example, leap year, illness, emergency or other exigency transiently altering the timeshare; the purpose of the 40% threshold is to define a base and ensure that each parent is routinely the custodian of a child for a meaningful and significant period of time.

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