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What happens to retirement benefits when the member or the spouse dies65279;Very few courts have reached the opposite result." Others have reached that opposite result, just to be reversed on appeal or upon narrow findings of special circumstances." P> Second, the emergency jurisdiction provisions predated the widespread enactment of state domestic violence statutes. Those statutes are often invoked to keep one parent away from the other parent and the children when there is a threat of violence. Whether these situations are sufficient to invoke the emergency jurisdiction provision of the UCCJA has been the subject of some confusion since the emergency jurisdiction provision does not specifically refer to violence directed against the parent of the child or against a sibling of the child. In April 1982, the father filed a motion to change custody and to eliminate his child support obligations under the parties’ Maryland divorce decree. The mother opposed noting that she was granted primary custody under the Maryland decree, that the child was living with her, and that the decree required the father to pay support until the child was 21. The district court required the father to pay child support for the child until he reached 18 years of age. In other words, the member essentially has an automatic, cost-free, survivorship benefit built into the law that automatically restores to him the full amount of the spouse’s share of the lifetime benefit if she should die before him. No matter what any court might order, if the former spouse dies first, the member not only continues to get his share of the benefits, but he will also get her share, for as long as he lives. The problems with the "Rivero Formula" noted in the Petition for Rehearing, in Ms. Decaria’s article, and in this Brief, caused Amicus to review the other Wisconsin-guideline States’ approaches to the problem of child support in joint custody cases. Those that have squarely examined it have reached the same result reached by this Court (total expenditures go up in a joint custody case) and have contrived a few different approaches to joint-but-unequal situations. We think none of them completely adequate, for the reasons set out below, and therefore suggest a different approach, tailored toward Nevada’s particular enactment, which includes our presumptive maximum provision. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court held that in personam jurisdiction may be acquired over a nonresident defendant in a divorce action by extraterritorial service of process if (1) a statute of the support ordering state has authorized the acquisition of such jurisdiction in that manner, and (2) there exist sufficient contacts between the defendant and the forum relevant to the cause of action to satisfy "traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice." Id. at 271. The courts holding that the SBP should be maintained seem to impliedly realize that the members’ survivorship interest in the former spouse’s benefits is automatic and free, while the spousal survivorship in the member’s benefits requires payment of a premium. None of the decisions goes into detail, comparing what the member or the spouse would actually receive in the event of the death of the other, or whether the results fit into the theory of equitable or equal community property and debt division. The public-policy disconnect is even more visible where the SCRA meets matters of child custody. Matters involving active-duty military personnel and custody proceedings are inherently problematic. Courts were often most forceful where the member chose to take the substitute benefit after the divorce decree (which, of course, therefore did not mention the benefit). In In re Crawford, the court specifically quoted and analogized to In re Marriage of Strassner, which addressed disability benefits. The Arizona court held that in both situations, the spousal interest was "finally determined" on the date of the decree, and the member would not be permitted to effectively make the spouseˇŻs property his own merely by recharacterizing it in some way. The court explicitly held that enforcing divorce decrees by ordering that the spouse receive a portion of the benefit taken by the member in lieu of the regular retirement did not violate Mansell. b) A court of the state otherwise having jurisdiction pursuant to NRS 125A.305, 125A.315 and 125A.325 determines that this state is a more appropriate forum pursuant to NRS 125A.365; or The Court held that it was not an abuse of discretion for the district court to award custody of the four children under the age of 14 to the mother and to allow the three children over the age of 14 to choose where they would live. The record showed no instance of any neglect or abuse by the mother, and the mother seemed to be more concerned about the welfare of the children than the father. If this hypothetical worker had the retirement plan suggested above in footnote 8, his average monthly salary during his last three years’ employment would be $4,014.21, and the defined benefit formula suggested would make his retired pay $2,007.11. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court noted that absent statute or agreement, attorney’s fees are not recoverable citing to Consumers League of Nevada v. Southwest Gas Corp., 94 Nev. 153, 576 P.2d 737 (1978). the mother argued that NRS 125.040(1), NRS 125.150(3) and NRS 125.180 authorized the court to award attorney’s fees for the prior appeal. The Court held that the district court erred in awarding attorney’s fees for the previous appeal as there was no statutory basis to do so. The Supreme Court apparently requires specific statutory authority to authorize an award to the financially weaker party attorney’s fees for prosecuting or defending an appeal. SPAN> Heim v. Heim, 104 Nev. 605, 763 P.2d 678 (1988) The parties were married for 35 years. The wife was 57, was a homemaker and raised six children, the husband pursued his own professional advancement earning a Ph.D., earned $5,600 per month, and had living expenses of less than $2,000 per month. The wife received an alimony award of $500 per month until death or remarriage. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court found that the award of $500 per month was not just and equitable. The Court also suggested fault for long-term marriages. This was later clarified by Rodriguez v. Rodriguez, 116 Nev. 993, 13 P.3d 415 (2000). The Court supported permanent alimony as a factor for a dependent spouse in a long-term marriage. The Court noted, in reversing, that the husband was walking away with the "career asset" of the Ph.D. degree and high degree of employability, and that the wife was entitled after a long marriage to live as nearly as fairly as possible to the station in life that she enjoyed before the divorce. Therefore, absent evidence that joint physical custody is not in the best interest of the child, if each parent has physical custody of the child at least 40 percent of the time, then the arrangement is one of joint physical custody. bsp; 2. Court can vary and make disproportionate awards of property if it finds "compelling reasons" to do so (Lofgren and Putterman) cases, usually involving fraud, financial misconduct, waste, etc. The Court may have concerns with 42 U.S.C. § 11604(b), which provides that a court may not order a child to be removed from a person having physical control of the child "unless the applicable requirements of state law are satisfied." In other words, the question is whether state law permits an ex parte temporary child custody order pending further hearing and final disposition of the petition. If it has been determined that the original State with CEJ lost that jurisdiction, then the question becomes whether there is a new Home State, which becomes the place where further custody litigation should take place.1 Again, until and unless there is a new Home State, the prior Home State is presumptively where any custody-related litigation should proceed. 65279;Very few courts have reached the opposite result." Others have reached that opposite result, just to be reversed on appeal or upon narrow findings of special circumstances." The reviewing court affirmed the order requiring reimbursement, rejecting the retiree’s argument that ordering reimbursement violated Mansell, and stating that it merely enforced the parties’ property settlement agreement, rather than dividing disability benefits. Since the case involved a post-Mansell divorce, the decree had included an indemnification provision26 because of the "higher standard of clarity" some courts have required of decrees after Mansell to be certain of the divorce court’s intent. However, the court noted that such enforcement of the intent at the time of the dissolution was appropriate whether or not the original order contained a specific indemnification provision.27 Finally, the appellate court noted that "[t]he equity of the result reached . . . is undeniable."28 SUP> Some courts examining post-Mansell (i.e., after 1989) decrees have looked for "safeguard" or "indemnification for reduction" clauses, as necessary indicators of intent to protect spouses from members’ recharacterization of benefits. Where such intent is found, even by implication, the member has been required to reimburse the former spouse for all sums his actions caused to be redirected from the former spouse back to him.6 Some courts have strongly encouraged the use of such clauses, since it makes the analysis essentially one of contract.7 B> Fern v. United States was an unusual case in that the defendant was not a former spouse but the United States itself. The suit sought to have the USFSPA declared invalid to the extent that it entitled the government to reduce the retired pay flowing to the members themselves. In other words, the members contended that, irrespective of any award to any former spouse, the full sum of retired pay should be paid to the members. It alleged unconstitutional "taking" of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment, an unconstitutional impairment of contracts with the United States (by which the members contended that they alone were to receive the entirety of their retirement benefits), and that spousal awards under the USFSP A were due process violations. 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