Concepts in the UCCJEA

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Of course, in some circumstances, the issues might be so simple that the Minutes provide an adequate recap of proceedings. There are also cases without sufficient funding to permit review of the video record, and perhaps emergency situations where there is not time to do so. This note does not address those circumstances. This is a most dangerous situation for a former spouse. As noted in the section above, spouses lose DIC eligibility upon divorce. And as set out below, there is normally no SBP coverage until after retirement. In other words, the former spouse risks total divestment if the member dies during the period between divorce and the memberfs actual retirement. P> Article 3 state that rights of custody may arise "by reason of an agreement having legal effect under the law of [the State of habitual residence]."2 This can take several forms. pre-emption. It would have required an automatic reversionary interest in the spousal share of the property upon death of the former spouse back to the member, in contravention of this Court’s holding in Wolff, and the very structure of various retirement plans, including ERISA’s divided interest scheme and mandatory spousal survivorship coverage,1 and the heritable spousal share set out in federal law for CSRS and FERS. The wife filed for divorce in 1977, and trial eventually commenced in 1980. During trial, the parties indicated that they could probably settle the matter. The court stated that it would grant the divorce and bifurcated the property settlement issues. Neither party objected. At the status check six days later, the wife’s counsel informed the court that an agreement had not been reached and requested that the decree not be granted. The husband objected and the matter was continued. After another week the matter was still unresolved. The district court then granted the wife a decree of divorce and ordered that the parties’ community property rights would be determined with the aid of a master. The husband later appealed. SUP> The distinction of the two concepts is much more pronounced in some other jurisdictions. In Washington State, for example, "separate maintenance" is an equitable remedy intended to provide maintenance to a needy spouse, providing limited jurisdiction to the court over the property of the parties, and a court decree anticipates the partiesf reconciliation.6 By contrast, "legal separation" in that jurisdiction is a statutory procedure providing a "permanent" remedy similar to the common law divorce from bed and board,7 in which the court has the same jurisdiction to enter permanent orders as to property and other matters as in a divorce action, except as to marital status. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court noted that the County and the named workers had immunity for discretionary, but not ministerial acts. Acknowledging that the conduct of such an investigation "involves numerous decisions on possible approaches," and that "there may be internal departmental operating procedures," the Court concluded that a child abuse investigation is "inherently discretionary" as it involves "personal deliberation, decision and judgment." The Court also found public policy reasons to shield workers from fear of "retaliatory lawsuits" which could diminish the state’s interest in preventing child abuse, and found the workers and CASA program shielded by quasi-judicial immunity. As in other subjects discussed above, the cases fit into a few separate categories, depending on the order and timing of the disability, retirement, and divorce. For the purpose of this discussion, we will focus solely on the category that has produced the bulk of the litigation, and authority in the field - where members waived at least some regular, longevity retired pay in favor of VA benefits, after the parties to the case divorced. The scant federal authority has led to the same result as the state cases, but by way of different rationales, primarily involving deferral to state courts in domestic relations cases,1 or squarely addressing and refuting a wide assortment of federal offenses allegedly committed by spouses in state divorce courts.2 For purposes of divorce litigation, the new law creates something of a brave new world, since it now seems to be possible for either party to a military marriage to be a resident of one or more other States than where the parties actually live. Conceivably, the law could create a bizarre situation in which the parties live in Nevada, but only the military member’s State of residence elsewhere would have jurisdiction to divide the military retirement under the Uniform Services Former Spouses Protection Act, but Nevada would be the mandatory jurisdiction for determination of child custody under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, while the non-military spouse could be a resident of a third State. As early as 1969, however, some States had declared pension rights to be community property, divisible upon divorce. The tide had clearly turned on this question, at least in the community property states, when the California Supreme Court issued its 1974 opinion in Fithian. Pension decisions, at first, addressed benefits which were vested at the time of divorce. Eventually, divisibility was extended to non-vested and unmatured retirement benefits as well. SUP> NRS 123.220 and NRS 123.130 together establish the presumptions that property acquired during marriage is community property, and that property owned prior to marriage is separate property.2 When a spouse uses separate funds or separate credit to purchase property during the marriage, that property generally remains his or her separate property.3 However, where no attempt is made by a spouse to keep separate and community property segregated, so that the properties have become so mixed and intermingled that it is no longer possible to determine their source, such intermingled properties are considered community property.4 Still, Welfare has come up with a plausible, although illogical, alternative interpretation of the words used. And if a statute is ambiguous, a number of rules of statutory construction come into play. Statutory interpretation should avoid meaningless or unreasonable results. When construing a specific portion of a statute, the statute should be read as a whole, and, where possible, the statute should be read to give meaning to all of its parts. Statutes with a protective purpose should be liberally construed in order to effectuate the intended benefits.1 After determining the total number of parenting time days, refer to "Parenting Time Table A" below. The left column of the table sets forth numbers of parenting time days in increasingly higher ranges. Adjacent to each range is an adjustment percentage. The parenting time adjustment is calculated as follOWS: locate the total number of parenting time days per year in the left column of "Parenting Time Table A" and select the adjustment percentage from the adjacent column. Multiply the Basic Child Support Obligation determined under Section 8 by the appropriate adjustment percentage. The number resulting from this multiplication then is subtracted from the proportionate share of the Total Child Support Obligation of the parent who exercises parenting time. As the number of parenting time days approaches equal time sharing (143 days and above), certain costs usually incurred only in the custodial household are assumed to be substantially or equally shared by both parents. These costs are for items such as the child's clothing and personal care items, entertainment and reading materials. If this assumption is rebutted by proof, for example, that such costs are not substantially or equally shared in each household, only "Parenting Time Table B" must be used to calculate the parenting time adjustment for this range of days. Locate the total number of parenting time days per year in the left column of "Parenting Time Table B" and select the adjustment percentage from the adjacent column. Multiply the Basic Child Support Obligation determined under Section 8 by the appropriate adjustment percentage. The number resulting from this multiplication then is subtracted from the proportionate share of the Total Child Support Obligation of the parent who exercises parenting time. The Supreme Court rejected the wife’s claim as well. The Court concluded that the wife failed to rebut the presumption of gift by clear and convincing evidence. The Court noted that when separate funds of a spouse were used to acquire property in the names of the husband and wife as joint tenants, it was presumed that a gift of one-half of the value of the joint tenancy property was intended which could only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence citing to Gorden v. Gorden, 93 Nev. 494, 497, 569 P.2d 397 (1977). The Court held that the wife’s testimony, standing alone, was insufficient to rebut the presumption of gift. P> Finally, there is language within Argentena indicating that if the client wishes to assert a malpractice claim against an attorney, the summary adjudication procedure is not available. Another reader has asked why that could not be made a matter of contract, as well. Of course, in some circumstances, the issues might be so simple that the Minutes provide an adequate recap of proceedings. There are also cases without sufficient funding to permit review of the video record, and perhaps emergency situations where there is not time to do so. This note does not address those circumstances. After 2014, spousal suits based on regular VA waiver disability applications should no longer be happening - at least for those with a disability award of 50% or more and who are taking benefits under the CRDP, not the CRSC, program. For those with lesser VA disability percentages, the legal issues are identical, but the dollars at stake are (necessarily) lesser. This is a discretionary (as opposed to strictly legal) decision, but it does not seem reasonable for a trial court to get dragged into a dispute as to which of the two potential beneficiaries is most "deserving" of the SBP - a dispute that would almost certainly devolve into a conflict over the causes of the original divorce, with all of the fault-based overtones that modern divorce practice tries to avoid. An attorney should not charge a fee the payment or amount of which is contingent upon: (i) obtaining a divorce; (ii) custody or visitation provisions; or (iii) the amount of alimony or child support awarded. An attorney may charge a contingent fee for all other matters, provided that: SUP> Under ICARA, the petitioner may choose the court in which to file a Hague Convention proceeding. It should be heard in any forum on an expedited calendar, but practical concerns could lead to different results in different places. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the appropriate military pay center shall pay the sums called for above directly to SPOUSE, to the extent permitted by law, at the same times as MEMBER receives retired or retainer pay, and that this Decree is intended to qualify under the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act, IOU .S.C. ˜ 1408 et seq., with all provisions to be interpreted to make the Decree qualify. l percentages should be taken out to four digits after the decimal point. Since no SBP premiums are charged until actual retirement, this adjustment should only be made at the time of actual retirement, even if the former spouse is getting a time-rule portion of a member’s retirement benefits at the time of eligibility for retirement under Luciano/Gillmore/Gemma/Fondi. These are pretty much "one-way" problems, insofar as there seems to be little authority regarding U.S.-based servicemembers attempting to litigate against foreign spouses or former spouses overseas. Rather, the typical problem involves situations where both the member and the spouse are located overseas, or the spouse is States-side, and the member is located at a U.S. installation in some foreign country.

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