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military guidelinesiii) Third, the amount of the BCSO is subtracted from the adjusted BCSO. The difference is the child-rearing expenses associated with the ARP's additional parenting time. In the example above, the additional childrearing expenses associated with the ninety-four (94) days of parenting time would be thirty dollars and fourteen cents ($30.14) [$1030.14 - $1000]. 65279;In the cases cited above, and others, the post-divorce disability award sought and awarded to the retiree was not allowed to block the spouse's right to continued payments under the terms of the decree. Even if Mansell does have to be considered in post-divorce recharacterization cases, courts have mandated that former spouses must be compensated, by awards of other property, or alimony, or (most commonly) dollar-for-dollar compensation of all amounts that would have been paid but for the recharacterization. Nevertheless, for many cases, a short-hand "translation" of various custodial schedules to percentage of time share might be useful, and the following approximations are provided for that purpose. Specifically, the Alaska joint-custody formula is triggered when the percentage of time (usually, but not always, to be defined as overnights of 110 or more) reaches 30% of custodial time. Trial courts are then to examine the details of the visitation schedule, and the financial disclosures, to determine whether expenses relating to the child divide in the same manner as the time spent with the child are divided. If so, normal guideline support is expanded by 50% to account for "redundant payments" in the two households, before application of Alaska’s deviation factors. The parties were divorced August 1974. The mother was awarded custody of the parties’ daughter and the father was ordered to pay support of $50 per month. In July 1975, the district court issued an order terminating all parental rights of the father on the basis of the father’s complete failure to provide support or attention. The father entered an appearance in the divorce and parental rights termination proceedings, but did not contest the actions. In 1981, the State filed an action against the father under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, seeking both reimbursement for past welfare assistance payments and future support. The district court dismissed the State’s petition. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court held that parental rights to included both parental rights and parental obligations, and that upon the father rights being terminated, his obligation to pay support terminated as well. P> One important clarification in the new Act, is applicability of the UCCJEA to international cases. NRS 125A.225 provides that "A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as if it were a State of the United States for the purpose of applying NRS 125A.305 to NRS 125A.395." In other words, a Court is required to treat the child’s residence in another country precisely the same as it would treat the child’s establishment of a different home State. The court may deviate from the standard calculation if the child spends a significant amount of time with the parent who is obligated to make a support transfer payment. The court may not deviate on that basis if the deviation will result in insufficient funds in the household receiving support to meet the basic needs of the child or if the child is receiving aid to families with dependent children. When determining the amount of the deviation, the court shall consider evidence concerning the increased expenses to a parent making support transfer payments resulting from the significant amount of time spent with that parent and shall consider the decreased expenses, if any, to the party receiving the support resulting from the significant amount of time the child spends with the parent making the support transfer payment. 1 For example [using strictly illustrative numbers], if MEMBER was eligible to receive $1,000 in monthly retired pay when he was first eligible to retire, but he continued in service and SPOUSE received a spousal percentage 0[40%, she would receive $400 per month. If MEMBER continued in service for some time, during which cost of living adjustments increased the sum payable to SPOUSE to $440, and then M EM BER retired, and received $1,500 in actual monthly retired pay, then SPOUSE's portion would be recalculated by dividing the sum SPOUSE was receiving by the sum MEMBER received upon retirement (in this example, 440 -7- 1,500), yielding 29.3333%. SPOUSE would then receive future cost of living adjustments to the recalculated percentage to wh ich she was entitled of M EM B ER's actual retired pay. In Barker v. Kansas,2 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the tax imposed by the state of Kansas on military retirement benefits paid to retirees, because the state did not similarly tax retirees under the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Previously, in Davis v. Michigan Department of Treasury, the Court had ruled that a state could not tax federal civil service retirees if it did not also tax recipients of state retirement benefits.3 Under the standard set forth in Davis, the question was whether taxation on the federal, but not the state, retirees was "directly related to, and justified by, ¡®significant differences between the two classes.¡¯"4 The Barker Court found no such differences between the classes of federal and state retirees. The decree confirmed a property settlement agreement which provided that the agreement was not incorporated in the decree but that it would survive. Eight years later, the husband filed a complaint to reform the agreement. The district court declined to rule on the merits and instead ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to modify the agreement. The Supreme Court held that because the property settlement agreement was neither merged nor incorporated into the decree, the action should have been decided in accordance with contract law principles citing to Renshaw v. Renshaw, 96 Nev. 541, 611 P.2d 1070 (1980). The respondent (Linda) and the appellant (Laura) were both ex-wives of the same man. During their marriage, Laura and the now ex-husband purchased a house. When they divorced, the decree awarded Laura the house on the condition that she pay to the ex-husband $7,000 or one-third of the net value of the real estate, whichever was greater. Seventeen days after the divorce, the first ex-wife, Linda, recorded a child support judgment against the house. Over five years later, Linda attempted to execute on the house. Laura argued the homestead exemption as a defense to the judgment lien. The district court ruled that the homestead exemption could be disregarded and the house sold. The district court, in doing so, relied upon the ruling in Breedlove v. Breedlove, 100 Nev. 606, 691 P.2d 426 (1984). On appeal, Laura raised a number of issues including that the district court erred by failing to find the defense of laches. The non-uniform national law governing partition of omitted assets therefore makes it imperative for counsel to address all pension benefits during the divorce case itself, as a matter of prudent, if not defensive, practice. Whether a survivorship interest for the non-employee spouse is in place - and who pays for it - has a major impact on the net benefits flowing to each of the parties to a divorce involving any form of retirement benefit. The parties married in 1955. They separated in July 1973. During the first month of their separation, the wife filed a complaint for separate maintenance, seeking to be awarded the family residence as her share of the community property, 50 percent of the parties’ net savings, and $5 per month in maintenance payments. The husband claimed the residence was held in joint tenancy and counterclaimed for divorce. After many continuances, a brief trial was held in 1981. Even though no deed was produced showing the property was held in joint tenancy, the district court found that it was. The district court ordered the immediate sale and the equal division of the net proceeds, or, in the alternative, the payment within 30 days by the wife to the husband of $24,000 for his share of the equity. The district court gave no consideration to the mortgage payments made by the wife following the separation. No finding or ruling made regarding a mobile home purchased by the husband after the separation but before the decree of divorce. The Supreme Court affirmed the lump sum award. The Court concluded that NRS 125.150, subsection 3, provided the authority for a district to set aside the separate property, provided an actual need for support is shown and the setting aside is not used as a vehicle to do equity between the parties. The parties had an approximately nine year marriage. The husband was ordered to pay alimony and child support and was awarded partial custody of the daughter. The wife requested alimony and support of$1 ,000 per month. The district court awarded alimony of $200 per month until the wife remarried or died, and child support of $150 per month, for three years; then $200 through elementary school, and then $250 per month until the child reaches the age of majority. The wife appealed claiming that the award was grossly inadequate. iii) Third, the amount of the BCSO is subtracted from the adjusted BCSO. The difference is the child-rearing expenses associated with the ARP's additional parenting time. In the example above, the additional childrearing expenses associated with the ninety-four (94) days of parenting time would be thirty dollars and fourteen cents ($30.14) [$1030.14 - $1000]. A) are owed by that member to the United States for previous overpayments of retired pay and for recoupments required bylaw resulting from entitlement to retire d pay; Several members of the Executive Council were instrumental in deflecting what would have been incredibly bad legislation, in the form of A.B. 292. That bill would have significantly damaged the whole scheme of community property by disallowing division of unvested retirement benefits, among other things. It was detected the day before its final vote in the Senate, having passed entirely through the Assembly, and Senate Judiciary, without any notice to the Council whatsoever. Under the qualitative approach to the time rule embraced by most time rule states, the member would receive half of this sum himself - $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 - $50 I. 78. In other words: Arriving at a "hard number" for the value of military retirement benefits is not, however, that simple. There are three different non-disability benefit formulas within the military retirement system. The first group is composed of members who entered service before September 8, 1980, the second consists of those who entered between that date and July 31, 1986, and the third is for those who entered service on or after August 1, 1986. 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