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An Introduction to Pensions in Nevada Divorce Law Section I Subsection A
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Why Bother? LiabilityIt must clearly specify the amount, percentage, or manner of determining the amount of the allowance or benefit of the member or retired employee that must be paid by the system to each alternate payee. Other courts have, similarly, found that a court can issue a spousal support award, post-divorce, sufficient to ameliorate the impact on an innocent former spouse whose "economic circumstances have deteriorated through no fault of her own" by reason of the former husband’s post-divorce application for disability benefits in lieu of retirement benefits.3 The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court held that extraordinary circumstances sufficient to overcome the parental preference presumption are those circumstances which result in serious detriment to the child. Factors which may include extraordinary circumstances include abandonment or persistent neglect of the child by the parent, likelihood of serious physical or emotional harm to the child if placed in the parent’s custody, continuing neglect or abdication or parental responsibilities; provision of the child’s physical, emotional and other needs by persons other than the parent over a significant period of time; the existence of a bonded relationship between the child and the non-parent custodian sufficient to cause significant emotional harm to the child in the event of a change in custody; the age of the child during the period when his or her care is provided by a non-parent; the child’s well-being has been substantially enhanced under the care of the non-parent; the emonstrated quality of the parent’s commitment to raising the child, the likely degree of stability and security in the child’s future with the parent; the extent to which the child’s right to an education would be impaired while in the custody of the parent; and any other circumstances that would substantially and adversely impact the welfare of the child. The best interests of the child still be considered even after a finding of extraordinary circumstances that overcome the parental preference presumption. 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. Instead, it would seem to make more sense to inquire into the economics of the question, and in the absence of some compelling reason to do otherwise, provide the insurable interest security that is the SBP to the spouse with the larger insurable interest to be secured. This serves the interest of securing to each spouse to the original divorce their respective rights to the benefit stream divided upon divorce, unaffected by decisions the other makes, whether to marry, divorce, live, or die. It is at this point a truism that retirement benefits, usually the most valuable asset of a marriage, are divisible upon divorce to at least the degree to which they were accrued during the marriage.1 As retirement benefits have become ubiquitous in divorce, many fine points regarding their division have arisen, and distinctions (intentional and otherwise) between and among public and private retirement plans have become apparent. The second possibility stated by the majority for finding jurisdiction in the family court ¨C that the couple "otherwise qualify as a familial unit" ¨C may have created even worse problems. That terminology is unknown to the prior case law, and appears on its face to be contrary to the standard slowly being evolved in this subject area. SPAN> Additionally, the "Rivero Formula" fails to take into account the doctrines of "presumed direct contribution" and "redundant expenditures." As discussed above, NRS 125B.070 inherently includes a "presumed direct contribution" to child expenses by the non-custodial parent during visitation periods. As stated in the 1992 Report of the Child Support Guidelines Review Committee, discussing the reduction of statutory support below that which would have been directly expended in intact households: B> As a matter of law, it is possible to value the spousal share in at least two ways. The majority of States applying the time rule formula seem to view the "community" years of effort qualitatively rather than quantitatively, reasoning that the early and later years of total service are equally necessary to the retirement benefits ultimately received.3 For example, in the common situation of a divorce occurring after the worker had retired, and already selected a QJSA, it is no longer possible to divide the retirement interest, providing one pension stream to the worker (as to whom the spouse’s continuing life or death would be irrelevant), and another to the spouse (as to whom the worker’s continuing life or death would be irrelevant). Rather, counsel would only have the lifetime benefit stream to divide, keeping in mind whatever QJSA option was selected at retirement. Some plans, further, override choices, providing for automatic reversion of the spousal interest if she predeceases the member, irrespective of any court orders, and refusing to qualify court orders providing otherwise. PAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> Other courts, however, have found the "automatic" reservation provisions of similar state laws insufficient (in the absence of a clause in the decree stating something that could be interpreted as "treating" the un-mentioned asset) to overcome the congressional ban on partition cases relating to such decrees. See Curtis v. Curtis, 9 Cal. Rptr. 2d 145 (Ct. App. 1992); Hennessy v. Duryea, 955 P.2d 683 (N.M. Ct. App. 1998). Traditionally, most retirement plans have been "defined benefit" plans, but this is changing rapidly in the post-Enron world, as many companies are terminating such plans, in or out of bankruptcy, and converting to "cash plans" or defined contribution plans, at least for all new workers. This is setting up a situation in which the controlling decisional law in many States was developed to distribute an entirely different kind of benefits (defined benefit plans) than will actually be presented in many divorce cases (defined contribution plans). The new 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. Depending on the letters used in the alphabet soup, enforcing the divorce decree's allocation of retirement benefits to the spouse may - or may not - require litigation. The arrangement can be set up at the time of divorce. In Waltz v. Waltz,17 the Nevada Supreme Court approved a decree which awarded the entire military retirement to the retiree, but ordered him to pay the former spouse, by military allotment, $200 plus cost of living adjustments on that sum, as "permanent alimony." The military service had overlapped the parties’ marriage by just less than ten years, precluding direct payment of a property award through the military pay center, and the appellate court found that in the context of the case, the parties’ use of phrase "permanent alimony," in conjunction with the COLA clause, showed an intent to link it to the military retired pay. Further, the court held that payments to a former spouse do not terminate upon her remarriage when the payments were clearly intended to achieve a property settlement. It must clearly specify the amount, percentage, or manner of determining the amount of the allowance or benefit of the member or retired employee that must be paid by the system to each alternate payee. Find out where the member last voted; registering to vote usually requires an affirmation of either domicile or residency in the jurisdiction in which the vote is to be cast. Again, when the registration to vote was made could be important, as well as how recently it had last been relied upon. For example, if the registration to vote had been made twenty years ago, and the member last voted years before moving to the forum state, the fact might be of little consequence given events since that time. There is little Nevada statutory law specifically directed to retirement benefits. Instead, they fall under the general definition of community property in NRS 123.220: "all property" acquired after marriage, with certain exceptions. All such property is divided under NRS 125.150 - the key statute governing division of property upon divorce - which mandates an equal distribution of community property, in the absence written reasons for finding a "compelling reason" to make an unequal disposition.1 Fortunately, PERS contains multiple survivorship options making it relatively easy for counsel to construct an order that divides the premium cost between the employee and the non-employee, so that both pay a share of the only survivorship option carrying a premium, and both leave the marriage with a secured interest from the date of divorce forward. That comes as close as is possible, given the structure of such retirement systems, for a court to actually treat both parties "equally" when one party works for PERS, or the military, or any other employer with a retirement program structured that way. Many courts hearing such cases when Mansell was decided did exactly what the California trial court did on remand in that case, issuing opinions that detailed why they would not allow the inequity of allowing post-divorce status changes by members to partially or completely divest their former spouses, where the original divorce decree had been issued prior to the Mansell decision.4 Ultimately, the matter was remanded to state court. Ironically, that court ruled that the previously-ordered flow of payments from the member to the spouse, put into place prior to the appellate Mansell decision, was res judicata and could not be terminated.3 In other words, the United States Supreme Court opinion had no effect on the order to divide the entirety of retirement and disability payments in the final, un-appealed divorce decree in the Mansell case itself. 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