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CONCLUSION Child Custody Jurisdiction in Nevada
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Family law involves multiple uniform actsThe property in question was Lucini & Associates, a closely held subchapter "S" corporation. When the parties were married in 1966, the husband was president and majority stockholder of the company. During the marriage, the husband, together with the other stockholders and employees, were paid salaries. All excess capital was dispersed annually. Also, during the marriage, the husband decreased his ownership in the company from 51 percent to 30.08 percent. The district court determined that the husband received full value in salary, profit distributions and fringe benefits, and that there was no community interest. The Court noted that it had previously adopted the Pereira and Van Camp methods of apportionment. The Court acknowledged that in Cord v. Neuhoff, 94 Nev. 21, 26, 573 P.2d 1170, 1173 (1978), it held that the preferred method was that suggested in Pereira "unless the owner of the separate estate could establish that a different allocation was more likely to accomplish justice." The Court also acknowledged that in Wells v. Bank of Nevada, 90 Nev. at 195, 522 P.2d at 1017, that it held apportionment pursuant to the Van Camp method was proper to achieve substantial justice, when "the community was fully compensated for the . . . community labor through [the husband’s] annual salary and related benefits." Id. at 214-15. The Court held the district court did not abuse its discretion is using the Van Camp method of apportionment as the record supported the court finding that community was compensated through the husband’s annual salary and benefits. The same conclusion is reached, however, even if this Court does not determine that equality of treatment under the divorce statutes is a fundamental right. This Court stepped through an equal protection analysis in Barnes v. Eighth Judicial District Court,8 and determined that after looking for the implication of fundamental rights, the review turns to whether the classification scheme created by the statute "is rationally related to furthering a legitimate state interest." In some circumstances, such as where both parties have resided overseas for a substantial period of time, or the children were born in a foreign country, the best route to obtaining a legitimate order for custody might be through the courts of the foreign country. The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act recognizes many foreign countries as "States,"6 and such orders may generally be registered and enforced in the United States. The Court noted the father of a child has a legal duty to support his child under NRS 125B.020. The father is entitled to no "tangible benefit" for fulfilling this responsibility. The father has no greater right than the mother to have a child bear his surname. The only factor relevant to the determination of what surname a child should bear is the best interest of the child. The burden is on the party seeking the name change to prove, by clear and compelling evidence, that the substantial welfare of the child necessitates a name change. 2) Calculate each parent's proportionate share of the base combined child support obligation by multiplying the base combined child support obligation by each parent's percentage of combined adjusted gross income. The amounts so calculated are the base child support obligation due from each parent for support of the children. P> Thus, the Convention envisions the person who wrongfully removed a child be required to bear the costs of the child’s return, and provides the deciding courts (this Court) with the ability to place the burden on the Respondent. Every single mediator and arbitrator now involved with the fee dispute system should be contacted in the next ten days and asked to commit to performance standards at minimum in accordance with those suggested above. Those not responding, or unwilling to act, should be dropped from the rolls and the matters previously assigned to them should be immediately reassigned. Decisions should be demanded within 72 hours as to all disputes that have already been heard. 65279;A former spouse who negotiated beneficiary status for SGLI in exchange for giving up other rights, or even obtained an order to receive beneficiary status under that plan, thus has no direct remedy if the member dies having named someone else anyway; a member is free to change beneficiaries, and such a named beneficiary is free from suits from the former spouse for a portion of the proceeds. Determining the member’s "Tax Home" for payroll purposes might be useful (and can be gleaned from the box on the Leave and Earning Statement ["LES"] under "state tax"). If the member’s claimed tax home is a State that actually charges and collects State income tax, that would be a good indicator of intent to call that place "home" (domicile, in most States). The type of physical custody arrangement is particularly important in three situations. First, it determines the standard for modifying physical custody. Second, it requires a specific procedure if a parent wants to move out of state with the child. Potter v. Potter, 121 Nev. 613, 618, 119 P.3d 1246, 1249 (2005). Third, the type of physical custody arrangement affects the child support award. Barbagallo, 105 Nev. at 549, 779 P.2d at 534. Because the physical custody arrangement is crucial in making these determinations, the district courts need clear custody definitions in order to evaluate the true nature of parties' agreements. Absent direction from the Legislature, we define joint physical custody and primary physical custody in light of existing Nevada law. In Schwartz v. Schwartz, 126 Nev. ___, ___ P.3d ___ (Adv. Opn. No. 8, Mar. 4, 2010), the Nevada Supreme Court determined that when a potential alimony obligor is old, rich, and sick, courts must explicitly determine whether lump sum alimony is appropriate. The question then remains, what constitutes joint physical custody to ensure the child frequent associations and a continuing relationship with both parents? Our law presumes that joint physical custody approximates a 50/50 timeshare. See Wesley, 119 N ev. at 112-13,65 P.3d at 252-53 (discussing shared custody arrangements and equal timeshare); Wright, 114 Nev. at 1368, 970 P.2d at 1071- 71 (discussing joint physical custody and equal timeshare). This court has noted that the public policy, as stated in NRS 125.490, is that joint custody is presumably in the best interest of the child if the parents agree to it and that this policy encourages equally shared parental responsibilities. Mosley, 113 Nev. at 60-61& n.4, 930 P.2d at 1116 & n.4. The case was eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which determined that state community property laws conflicted with the federal military retirement scheme, and thus were impliedly pre-empted by federal law. The majority held that the apparent congressional intent was to make military retirement benefits a "personal entitlement" and thus the sole property of individual service members, so the benefits could not be considered as community property in a California divorce. The property in question was Lucini & Associates, a closely held subchapter "S" corporation. When the parties were married in 1966, the husband was president and majority stockholder of the company. During the marriage, the husband, together with the other stockholders and employees, were paid salaries. All excess capital was dispersed annually. Also, during the marriage, the husband decreased his ownership in the company from 51 percent to 30.08 percent. The district court determined that the husband received full value in salary, profit distributions and fringe benefits, and that there was no community interest. The Court noted that it had previously adopted the Pereira and Van Camp methods of apportionment. The Court acknowledged that in Cord v. Neuhoff, 94 Nev. 21, 26, 573 P.2d 1170, 1173 (1978), it held that the preferred method was that suggested in Pereira "unless the owner of the separate estate could establish that a different allocation was more likely to accomplish justice." The Court also acknowledged that in Wells v. Bank of Nevada, 90 Nev. at 195, 522 P.2d at 1017, that it held apportionment pursuant to the Van Camp method was proper to achieve substantial justice, when "the community was fully compensated for the . . . community labor through [the husband’s] annual salary and related benefits." Id. at 214-15. The Court held the district court did not abuse its discretion is using the Van Camp method of apportionment as the record supported the court finding that community was compensated through the husband’s annual salary and benefits. The decree approved an agreement between the parties which was held merged in the decree. The wife sought a money judgment against the husband for arrears. The district court awarded the wife judgment against the husband for $12,535.17. The district court limited interest at the statutory rate on the various sums totaling $12,535.17 to a time commencing January 1, 1960, from which she appeals. The husband contended he was entitled to a credit of $1,972 paid directly to a son while attending college and prior to his 21st birthday; a credit of $1,562 representing tuition and living expenses paid directly to the son while attending college after reaching 21 years. The husband also contended there should have been no longer required to make payments to the wife for their daughter after her marriage. The agreement, merged into the decree, however, provided that payments to be alimony. The agreement did not expressly provide for reduction in the alimony payments in the event one of the children married. 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 Third, taxpayer resources would be thrown away by repeating the very same appointment process again, less than three months after appointment, and before any meaningful review of the appointee’s ability and performance in the position could possibly be made. As a practical matter, can there be any doubt that after the waste of significant amounts of time, effort, and money, exactly the same person would be appointed to exactly the same position? The parties married September 1981. On the day of their marriage, the parties signed an antenuptial agreement. Soon after the marriage, the wife began working for the husband’s company. For about three years she worked part-time, mostly trying to speed up or enforce collections. After about one year after the wife began work, she and the husband agreed his company would not pay her a separate salary, but her income would be included in the husband’s income. The husband and his accountant testified that the wife agreed to this means of compensation so his company would not have to pay separate payroll taxes. Throughout the marriage thereafter, this income into the joint checking account, and it was used to pay community expenses. The district court filed the decree in October 1986. The wife was awarded primary physical custody of the child and the husband was ordered to pay $500 a month child support, maintain health insurance for the child, and designate her as beneficiary for a $50,000 life insurance policy. The wife was ordered to execute documents, on a yearly basis, allowing the husband to claim the exemption for the child. The court addressed the constitutional challenges head on, and found that there was no constitutional issue in state court division of military retired pay under the USFSPA. P> On their face, the statutes mandate a custody and support determination in every case involving children. NRS 125.450(1), which dates to 1983, provides that: Accordingly, the USFSPA included special jurisdictional rules that must be satisfied in military cases to get an enforceable order for division of the benefits as property. In other public and private plans, any state court judgment valid under the laws of the state where it was entered is generally enforceable to divide retirement benefits; this is not true for orders dividing military retirement benefits as property. The rules do not restrict alimony or child support orders, which will be honored if the state court had personal and subject matter jurisdiction under its own law. G) A child support obligation calculated based on shared physical custody shall not exceed the amount that the parent with a legal duty to pay support would pay if this parent's child support obligation were calculated based on the other parent's sole custody pursuant to subsection (f) of this section. B> It makes little sense to spend time or money arguing about the merits of cases when the court lacks jurisdiction to act on the subject at all. Lawyers should always focus on the existence or non-existence of jurisdiction as to the subject sought to be brought before the court when initiating (or responding to) any new matter. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court held that grandparents must petition for visitation prior to or at an adoption proceeding or they have no standing to do so. A grandparent may seek visitation (I) in a divorce decree; (2) in an order for separate maintenance; or (3) upon a petition filed after a divorce or separation or upon a relinquishment of parental rights. "Utilizing the maxim of statutory construction expressio unius est exclusio alterius, those three times are the only times when visitation can be granted under NRS 125A.330 ... an adoption completely abrogates the legal relationships between a child and his natural parents." ld. at 1252. The natural father's relinquishment of parental rights, and stepparent adoption, eliminated grounds for natural grandparents to later seek visitation. 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