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All other jurisdictions have lined up with the national consensus. In 2000, New Mexico verified its 1990 holding in Toupal, supra, in Scheidel,4 rejecting a "federal law prohibits enforcement" argument and noting that there is no analytical difference between a member making a new disability application post-divorce, on the one hand, and increasing an award that existed upon divorce, on the other. That court, like many others, reinvented the core concept of Gillmore: "one spouse should not be permitted to benefit economically in the division of property from a factor or contingency that could reduce the other spouse’s share, if that factor or contingency is within the first party’s complete control."5 The child was less than one and one-half years old when her mother married and was treated as the husband's own daughter throughout their marriage. The child perceived the husband as her father. The husband went alone to hire an attorney to handle the adoption. In order to make adoption possible, he sought and effectuated a termination of the parental rights of the child's natural father. The wife joined in the petition, but testified that she would not have done so had the husband not promised to adopt the child. The husband then signed a petition to adopt, declaring that he desired to establish a parent-child relationship. However, the parties' marriage deteriorated and the legal adoption was not finalized. The husband sought a divorce, and denied any obligation of support. The district court found that child support was justified on a theory of equitable adoption, ordered the husband to pay support. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court held where there is a promise to adopt, and in reasonable, foreseeable reliance on that promise a child is placed in a position where harm will result if repudiation is permitted, equitable adoption was permitted. Substantially modified by Hermanson. Milton, age 70, was very wealthy when he met 40-year old Abigail in 1992. At his request, she stopped working to allow joint travel. They wed in 1993 - with a premarital agreement in place. Bliss was short-lived, and by the end of 1994, Milton filed for divorce. But after 19 months of separation, the divorce proceedings were abandoned and the parties reconciled, each making "certain [unspecified] promises" memorialized in a reconciliation agreement. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that SPOUSE is and shall be deemed as the irrevocable beneficiary of the survivor's benefit plan ("SBP") through MEMBER's military retirement as the former spouse of MEMBER, and MEMBER shall execute such paperwork as is required to make or extend the election of SPOUSE as said beneficiary, and shall do nothing to reduce or eliminate that benefit to SPOUSE. MEMBER shall elect the former spouse-only option and shall select as the base amount the higher of: (I) the minimum permissible SBP amount; or (2) a sum of monthly retired pay which, when multiplied by 55%, will yield the same dollar sum as is paid to SPOUSE during the parties' lifetimes under the terms of this order. The USFSPA is both jurisdictional and procedural; it both permits the state courts to distribute military retirement to former spouses, and provides a method for enforcement of these orders through the military pay center. The USFSPA itself does not give former spouses an automatic entitlement to any portion of members’ pay. Only state laws can provide for division of military retirement pay in a divorce, or provide that alimony or child support are to be paid from military retired pay. Rights granted by state law are limited by federal law, even if state law does not so provide, and even if the courts of the states do not see any such limitations.7 The potential liability is the value of the benefit lost to the shortchanged spouse. An increased degree of attention to ferreting out possible concealed assets, including retirement benefits, is not only advisable, but necessary. The Supreme Court found an abuse of the lower court’s discretion in deciding whether to grant or deny a motion under NRCP 60(b), and reversed the lower court’s denial. The case was remanded, noting that the dissolution of the marriage was not affected, but the parties were only to "litigate the division of their property" upon remand. Id. at 184-85. nbsp; 7. Partition Actions Many states permit former spouses to return to court for partition of assets not disposed of in the original divorce proceeding, typically as "tenants in common" of the omitted assets. See, e.g., Henn v. Henn, 605 P.2d 10 (Cal. 1980). The February 4, 1991, amendments to the Act put into place certain other changes, among them a prohibition on partition actions (for omitted pensions) if the underlying divorce decree was dated prior to June 25, 1981, and did not divide the pension or reserve jurisdiction to do so. The amendment had no effect on pre-McCarty divorces which did divide military retirement benefits, or on partition judgments which addressed divorces finalized on or after June 25, 1981. Next door in Nevada, community property ceases to accrue on the "date of divorce."3 There, the math would be 12 (years of marriage) ÷ 20 (years of service) x .5 (spousal share) x $1,000 (pension payment) = $300. The husband owned stock in the company in question with his brothers prior to his marriage. An agreement between the brothers provided terms upon which the family corporation was to acquire the shares of stock held by one of the brothers in the event of his death and thereby maintain continuity of management of the corporation. The agreement stated that the shares were the husband’s separate property. The district court found that although the husband contributed in part to the corporate growth, his activity in the business was substantially reduced because of other business involvement and that during the subsequent years, most of the increase in the stock’s value was attributed to other sources. Because of the salary the husband received and expense account, the district court concluded that the community was fully compensated for the husband’s community labor through his annual salary and related benefits. PAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> The Court engaged in a lengthy discussion of joint tenancy, community property, and the Nevada Constitution. The Court noted that a choice of the tenancy had to be made, and it may assume that it will sometimes be made unadvisedly or that later developments may indicate that the choice, seemingly advantageous at the time, has resulted in loss or hardship. The Court cited and discussed a large number of cases from which it concluded that property acquired in the name of either spouse, or taken by both spouses as tenants in common or as joint tenants may be, by agreement between them, transmuted into community property. The Court noted that no case was provided to it, and they found none through their research in which a transmutation from joint tenancy to community was held to have taken place without proof either that the property was acquired with the intent that it be held in a tenancy different from that indicated from the form of the deed, or that, although acquired without such initial intent, it was later transmuted by agreement of the parties. The Court noted that it was unnecessary for them to determine, and it did not determine, that under no circumstances may the intent of the parties be established through circumstantial evidence and that its affirmance only went to the extent of holding that the use of community funds, earnings and efforts to build up and materially increase the value of the joint tenancy property, without further proof of original intent or subsequent agreement to hold the property as community was insufficient to prove a transmutation from joint tenancy. Vacation pay is accrued at the rate of 1¼ days per month of continuous service, and is cumulative from year to year, with a maximum of 30 days accrual per year.21 All leave beyond 30 days must be used during the next year, or it is forfeited. Upon termination of employment, state employees are entitled to lump sum payment of their accumulated annual leave.22 Further, the value of that vacation pay is computed at the rate of pay that the employee had at termination, not the rate of pay at the time the leave was accrued.23 The Supreme Court reversed. In reversing, the Court noted that unless otherwise provided by law, decree, or agreement, all property acquired after marriage is considered to be community property under NRS 123.220 and that presumption can only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence citing to Todkill v. Todkill, 88 Nev. 231, 495 P.2d 629 (1972) and Kelly v. Kelly, 86 Nev. 301, 468 P.2d 359 (1970). The Court further noted that the opinion of either spouse as to whether property is separate or community is of no weight citing to In Re Wilson’s Estate, 56 Nev. 353, 53 P.2d 339 (1936) and Barrett v. Franke, 46 Nev. 170, 208 P. 435 (1922). 7)(A) If a former spouse receiving payments under this subsection with respect to a member or former member referred to in paragraph (2)(A) marries again after such payments begin, the eligibility of the former spouse to receive further payments under this subsection shall terminate on the date of such marriage. The wife, at the time of the marriage, quit the job she had been working for 17 years. After one year of marriage the wife returned to work because the husband was so "penurious" that she needed additional income for living expenses as well as to care for her aged mother. The work she found paid much less than before. The district court awarded the wife $4,000 in lieu of a division of property interests plus $100 per month alimony to the wife with a reservation of jurisdiction over the alimony by the district court. 3. The presumption that more parenting time by the ARP results in greater expenditures which should result in a reduction to the ARP's support obligation may be rebutted by evidence. The need to make some kind of adjustment for shared custody/extended visitation is acute. Families are establishing joint custody arrangements at increasingly higher rates. The 1995 Census Bureau report for the year 1991 showed that 73% of non-custodial mothers and 58% of non-custodial fathers had extensive visitation privileges or joint custody. United States Department of Health and Human Services, Final Report: The third scenario would have the former spouse pay the entire SBP premium. Using the same hypothetical facts, reducing the spousal share from 25% to 19.7861% would free the member from paying any portion of the premium, directly or indirectly.4 The former spouse is still over-secured, as in the prior scenario, and the parties are still left in an unequal position regarding risks and burdens, since the member still has an entirely free survivorship interest on the spouse’s life, and she is paying the entire premium for the survivorship interest on the member’s life. bsp; It is permissible to move to Nevada specifically for the purpose of getting a divorce, but that residence must be bona fide - while the case law continues to develop, it can be summarized as stating that any fact, or action, that makes it appear either that a party did not actually live in Nevada for six weeks before filing for divorce, or that during those six weeks, the party did not really have the intent to live in this state "for at least an indefinite period of time." A Louisiana case had been commenced by the wife who was seeking a legal separation, child custody and support. After starting the suit, the wife left Louisiana with the children, and moved to Clark County where they remained. The Louisiana litigation continued in her absence, and she was represented by counsel. The Louisiana court granted the father the custody of all four children. The Lousiana court found the mother unfit for custody. The father then filed a habeas petition in Nevada. The Louisiana order upon which the husband’s habeas petition was grounded became final before the Nevada habeas proceeding was concluded. The Louisiana decree which gave the husband a divorce and custody of the four minor children was received in evidence in the Nevada litigation. The Nevada court found that the mother was unfit for custody. The district court entered a custody order which awarded the custody of his three minor daughters to their maternal grandparents. He was given custody of his minor son. These limitations override state long-arm rules, and must be satisfied in addition to any state law jurisdictional requirements. Cases lacking such jurisdiction can go forward, but they will not result in enforceable orders as to the retirement benefits. The statute effectively creates an additional jurisdictional requirement, which for lack of a better title can be called "federal jurisdiction." Anecdotal accounts, however, indicate that some trial courts continue to be misled into ruling to the contrary, based upon an overly-expansive reading of Mansell and misplaced concerns about violating the Supremacy Clause, or simply by seeing the word "disability" and reacting without any sort of adequate inquiry into what the law is, or why. Likewise, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the award of sole custody of the family’s Labrador Retriever to the husband because the wife’s other dogs were a threat to the Labrador’s life.4 This is similar to Nevada’s recent changes to NRS 33.018, taking into account the harm that may succumb to an animal when they are placed with one person or the other. Whether or not equality of treatment by the divorce courts is considered a fundamental right, there is little doubt that NRS 125.155 is constitutionally infirm. Several commentators and researchers have reviewed the cases nationally, reaching the conclusion that post-divorce recharacterization of retired pay as disability benefits just is not permitted without compensation to the former spouse. All other jurisdictions have lined up with the national consensus. In 2000, New Mexico verified its 1990 holding in Toupal, supra, in Scheidel,4 rejecting a "federal law prohibits enforcement" argument and noting that there is no analytical difference between a member making a new disability application post-divorce, on the one hand, and increasing an award that existed upon divorce, on the other. That court, like many others, reinvented the core concept of Gillmore: "one spouse should not be permitted to benefit economically in the division of property from a factor or contingency that could reduce the other spouse’s share, if that factor or contingency is within the first party’s complete control."5 A divorce decree calling for future reduction or termination of alimony may seem harsh to the obligee, whose needs presumably will not decrease. But property division schemes everywhere increasingly resemble the community property scheme of dividing, usually equally, that which was created, during the marriage, and most states (including Nevada) have eliminated "fault" analyses in favor of straight economic criteria for if and how much '" alimony should be awarded. Practitioners therefore must be careful in all reservist cases; they should be wary in a case involving reserve component service of any calculations that presuppose the typical "years of marriage divided by years of service" formula. Since point accumulation might have been intermittent, significantly different spousal percentages could be obtained by the two methods of figuring. Note that the amended (prior) regulations in 32 C.F.R. § 63.6 specifically directed dividing reservist’s retirements by points accrued during marriage, rather than duty time during marriage. That directive appears to have remained in all subsequent military guidelines, including the 2009 regulations.1 The Court noted that the relation of husband and wife is one involving the highest trust and confidence. Under both common law and equitable standards, in any transaction, whereby one spouse seeks to obtain the other spouse’s property without adequate compensation, no duress, coercion, undue influence, imposition or overreaching will be tolerated. If no trust was found, and no consideration was paid for the income paid to the wife and reassigned to the husband, the burden of proof would shift to the husband, and would require him to prove affirmatively that the reassignment was executed without undue influence, and that it was entered into freely and voluntarily, also that it was understood by the wife and was fair and equitable to her. 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