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Factors to Consider in Deciding Whether to File in Federal or State Court
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Helpful hints that will help you decide where to file your petitionAnd there is authority governing what to do in the circumstance when all parties have left the issuing State, but one of them moves back before any other State assumes jurisdiction to modify the support order. B> When a child spends more than 109 overnights per year in the home of the parent from whom support is sought, that parent may retain a percentage of the primary support allowance and the parents' combined SOLA. To determine the credit, enter on Line 21A the percentage from the following table corresponding to the number of annual overnights. Then multiply the percentage by Line 19 ofTHE OTHER PARENT and enter the result on Line 21 B. If there are multiple children in different ranges, the percentages should be averaged. In all cases where the percentage is less than 50% the overnights must be evidenced by a Court order or written agreement, and Line 21 B shall not exceed their own SOLA obligation (Line 17a). While some courts have expressed the opinion that an outright award of spousal support in the sum of military retirement benefits lost by reason of a disability election constitutes a violation of Mansell,4 other courts have had no problem with the direct substitution of alimony for the intended property award. In Austin (Scott) v. Austin,5 the court instituted an award of alimony, that had been previously reserved until remarriage, in lieu of the pension share lost because of the member’s transfer to VA disability status. The court gave its approval to alimony continuing after the spouse’s remarriage, where the alimony award is intended to compensate for distribution of a pension earned during marriage, citing Arnholt v. Arnholt.6 Petition for rehearing of Rivero v. Rivero, 124 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 84, 195 P.3d 328 (2008), appeal from a district court postdivorce decree order modifying a joint child custody award. Eighth Judicial District Court, Family Court Division, Clark County; In accordance with NRS 193.021, "Personal property" includes dogs, all domestic animals, and birds. Basically, your beloved pet has as much significance in law as the expensive collar he or she is wearing. According to NRS 123.130 and case law, all property acquired after marriage is presumed community property, which is to be divided equally. Notwithstanding that, pet owners see their animals as more then just another inanimate object. Over time they become members of the family, but the law demands us to place a monetary value on "Fluffy." 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. Most of the people in this country earning retirement benefits work for private employers. Most private employee-benefit plans, or "pension plans"4 in the United States today are qualified under, and governed by, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, known as "ERISA,"5 codified at 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. ERISA was substantially modified and refined in 1984 by the Retirement Equity Act ("REA"),6 discussed in much greater detail elsewhere in these materials, which provided that certain domestic relations orders, containing specific terms, must be accepted and honored by ERISA-qualified pension plans. The same result was reached in three cases from Tennessee decided in early 2001, two from that State’s Court of Appeals, and a third from the Tennessee Supreme Court: Hillyer v. Hillyer22; Smith v. Smith23; Johnson v. Johnson.24 All three decision discussed the Mansell holding at length. They started with the legal principles that military retired pay is marital property subject to distribution, and that periodic payments to a spouse are distributions of property rather than alimony. As such, a divorce decree’s division of retired pay is final, and when not appealed, is not subject to later modification. 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. SUP> In Lofgren, the reviewing court did not expressly state a standard of review, except to couch its decision as a finding that the lower court had not erred, and that its findings of fact were not clearly erroneous. Similarly, Putterman did not state on its face a standard of review, but contained findings that the lower court’s decision was detailed and did in fact support the conclusion that compelling reasons supported the modestly unequal division finally reached. While couched as finding no legal error, the analysis and conclusion in both cases were the sort that could be expected under an "abuse of discretion" review. If the money is paid to a third party, however, such as a child (or, presumably, either party’s attorney), the participant is stuck with the amount of the distribution as part of gross income for that year, and 10% is withheld. These rules provide a way of shifting the tax burden of funds to be withdrawn and used to pay attorney’s fees, just by changing the payee of the withdrawal. The parties were married in May 1930 and divorced in November 1945. The property settlement agreement obligated the husband to pay $750 per month for the life of the wife in return for her releasing all community property claims she might have against the husband. It was further agreed that one-third of each monthly payment was to be the portion payable for the support, maintenance, and education of the parties’ minor child. The agreement however, also stated that the payments for the child would not in any way affect the requirement of this decree for the payment to the wife during her life of the full amount of the monthly payment of $750 provided for by way of property settlement. The wife remarried in October 1956, and the daughter emancipated in December 1957. The husband then moved to enter satisfaction of judgment based upon the wife’s remarriage and the child’s emancipation, contending that the payments were alimony. The district court denied the husband's request. This case concerned a man and a woman who lived together in various States from 2001 until 2004, when the woman moved to Las Vegas. All sides agreed that the man followed and the relationship either continued or was reconciled, but ended permanently in 2005. About the only tactical advice that can be offered to spouses of members who are overseas is to ensure that any divorce proceeds through the U.S. courts, with the member clearly consenting to litigation in that jurisdiction. If, for whatever reason, that is impossible, it seems that the spouse would be prudent to begin American proceedings simultaneously with any foreign divorce, in whatever State the member had last established residence or domicile, by way of declaratory judgment or partition. While this is non-obvious, and inconvenient, and expensive, it is the closest thing to some assurance of protection of the spousal share that appears to be available under current law. 2) If the court or administrative law judge determines actual parenting time exercised by a parent is different than what is provided in a written parenting plan or court order, the percentage of parenting time may be calculated using the actual parenting time exercised by the parent. In further exposition, the Court found the child support statutes binding in all cases, with parties permitted to deviate upward or downward from the guidelines only on stated facts which are made written findings by a trial court, and based on the statutory factors of NRS 125B.080(9), which it further found are "exclusive, not illustrative." The ability of an abductor to travel internationally - and to seize a child in doing so - implies a command of at least some resources, but our experience is that a sizeable number of abductors are, to a substantial degree, "judgment proof." Even those who are not tend to be reasonably versed in the vagaries of international travel, and currency conversion and disguise, so that enforcing judgments against them is extraordinarily difficult. The Gaskill court therefore concluded that, to the extent a business or profession has goodwill (or has a value in excess of its net assets) it is a factual issue to what extent, if any, that goodwill is personal to the owner or employee and to what extent it is enterprise goodwill and therefore divisible property. In other words, the highest court in the U.S. has said that the administrative convenience of plan administrators is more important than obeying divorce court orders, or following the intent of parties. It is possible that no one would ever notice. But if either party filed an action in the children¡¯s Home State claiming that Nevada never had jurisdiction to determine custody, the rule indicates that such a filing would succeed. An attorney wishing to personally estimate present values can purchase computer programs that do the math involved quickly.2 Such programs often allow the user to plug in the assumptions to be used, such as life expectancy, presumed interest rate, etc. In any event, attorneys handling these cases in States that allow or require trading the present value of the retirement benefit must become well versed in all aspects of valuation, interest rate assumptions, and other factors involved. Failure to do so invites disaster at settlement or in court. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court began by noting that property once a part of the community will be presumed to remain such until shown by clear, certain, and convincing proof to have been transmuted into separate property citing to Lake v. Bender, 18 Nev. 361, 4 P. 711, 7 P. 74. The Court held that the burden is on the person claiming it as separate property to overcome this presumption by proof sufficiently clear and satisfactory to prove the correctness of such a claim and cited to Milisich v. Hillhouse, 48 Nev. 166, 228 P. 307 (1922); Laws v. Ross, 44 Nev. 405, 194 P. 465 (1920); Jones v. Edwards, 49 Nev.299, 245 P. 292 (1926) and Petition of Fuller, 63 Nev. 26, 159 P.2d 579 (1945). The Court believed the district court was correct in concluding that there was not clear and certain or convincing proof that the property was the separate property of the wife. It is the far better practice to deal with pensions during the divorce itself, instead of deferring the matter to be dealt with "later." Some states do not clearly permit a spouse who does not receive a portion of pension benefits upon divorce to bring a partition action at a later date to divide those benefits, and the law on the subject still contains some contradictions. If and when concurrent receipt has been fully implemented in a given case, totally eliminating the required waiver, a retiree’s application for and receipt of regular VA disability benefits would have no effect on a pre-existing division of military retired pay between the retiree and his former spouse; he would just get additional benefits. So, 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 CRSC, program. For those with lesser VA disability percentages, the legal issues are identical, but the dollars at stake are (necessarily) lesser. 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 Sometimes, this focus is revealed in contempt cases, as in the 1995 Texas Court of Appeals rejection of a retiree’s claim that federal law made him "exempt" from contempt sanction after he waived retired pay in favor of disability benefits.2 This is one of the cases that have labeled a post-divorce recharacterization of benefits as an improper "collateral attack on a final unappealed divorce decree."3 A decree was entered, granting the husband custody of the minor child, and distributing the community property. The wife appealed, in part, contending she should have been awarded attorney’s fees. The Court noted that a district court was authorized to allow reasonable attorney fees if attorney fees are at issue under the pleadings. The Court further noted that the wife requested attorney’s fees and the husband denied the same in his reply. The Court held that although a wife was no longer required to show necessitous circumstances to support an award of attorney fees citing to Sargeant v. Sargeant, 88 Nev. 223, 495 P.2d 618 (1972), such an award was neither automatic nor compulsory, but within the sound discretion of the district court. The Court further noted there was no evidence in the request to support the request that the wife should have been awarded attorney’s fees. The fourth scenario imposes the SBP premium payment entirely on the member, by increasing the spousal share to 26.7380%.2 The former spouse remains over-secured, as above. The entire premium falls to the member, who still has the free survivorship on the spouse’s life. Shifting the premium in this way is analogous to making a spousal support award. And there is authority governing what to do in the circumstance when all parties have left the issuing State, but one of them moves back before any other State assumes jurisdiction to modify the support order. It is worth pausing to note that the various different retirement schemes, public and private, have a dizzying array of survivorship vehicles, which range from going into effect automatically unless specific steps are timely taken to prevent it,4 to being lost forever by silence unless very specific steps are timely taken to preserve them.5 Felony willful neglect or refusal to support minor children under NRS 201.020 was affirmed. The divorce was in California, with the father being ordered to pay support. The father chose prison over work time to pay arrearages. The father set forth a defense of inability via claim of having made too little money during past five years was rebuffed by court on basis that he was physically able to work during that period and in fact did so on various occasions. Under the qualitative approach to the time rule embraced by most time rule States, the member would receive half of this sum himself ¨C $1,003.55. Each of his former spouses, having been married to him for exactly half the time the pension accrued, would receive half of that sum ¨C $501.78. In other words: The parties divorced in 1995, and had three children. The mother received primary custody. The mother remarried. Her husband was a member of the Air Force. The husband then received a transfer to Japan. The mother filed a motion seeking permission to move. The father filed a countermotion seeking a change in custody. The district court entered an order denying permission to move and granting the father’s request if the mother did move. The order was entered without a hearing. The following paragraph provides that if a member dies before the Alternate Payee begins receiving benefits and a refund of the contribution account is payable, the Alternate Payee will be eligible to receive the specified share of the refund (NOTE: this only applies if the Member dies before retirement without a spouse or eligible survivors under NRS 286.671-286.6791). 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