The Marren and Page Case List Awad v Wright Lamb v Lamb and Dept of Child a As briefly recounted above in the section introducing the USFSPA, there is more than one way to obtain collection of a court award from an active-duty or retired military member. The cost of the Survivor Benefit Plan is deducted from the husband-retiree’s gross pension income of $2200 per month before the net remainder is divided between the parties pursuant to the permanent orders. Thus, the expense is shared equally by both parties. This was apparently the scenario contemplated when the SBP was created in 1972, to provide a monthly annuity to spouses and dependents of retired members of the Uniformed Services. It largely replaced an earlier survivor’s plan known as the RSFPP,1 which is of little importance here. All members entitled to retired pay are eligible to participate in the SBP,2 under which a survivor’s annuity is payable after a member’s death.3 UP> The arrangement can be set up at the time of divorce. In Waltz v. Waltz,1 the Nevada Supreme Court approved a decree which awarded the entire military retirement to the retiree, but ordered him to pay the former spouse, by military allotment, $200 plus cost of living adjustments on that sum, as "permanent alimony." The military service had overlapped the parties’ marriage by just less than ten years, precluding direct payment of a property award through the military pay center, and the appellate court found that in the context of the case, the parties’ use of phrase "permanent alimony," in conjunction with the COLA clause, showed an intent to link it to the military retired pay. Further, the court held that payments to a former spouse do not terminate upon her remarriage when the payments were clearly intended to achieve a property settlement. It was only the next day that the Family Law Section discovered that the bill had not been killed in the Assembly, as it had been informed.5 The Section scrambled to put together a written report to Senator James (chair of Senate Judiciary) as to all the damage the proposed legislation would inflict, but it did not reach him during the next day’s (June 27) Committee proceedings, which The Supreme Court reversed. The Court held that when relocation significantly impaired the other parent’s ability to exercise the responsibilities he or she had been exercising, it constituted substantially changed circumstances which justified a reexamination of custody based upon the best interest of the children, taking into account all relevant factors, including the effects of relocation. The Court noted that an order changing custody if the primary custodian chooses to move after the court denies a motion to  relocate appeared to be designed to punish the primary custodian. The Court found that the punitive nature of the order was made clear due the fact that it changed custody without any provision for the mother to have any contact with the children. The Court reiterated that it made it clear that district courts could not use changes of custody as a sword to punish perceived parental misconduct citing to Sims v. Sims, 109 Nev. 1146, 1149, 865 P.2d 328, 330 (1993).  At the very least, the underlying court order (i.e., the decree of divorce) should specify the intended beneficiary, and a copy should be sent to the plan to avoid any later allegation that it was not aware of the existence of the spousal interest. As briefly recounted above in the section introducing the USFSPA, there is more than one way to obtain collection of a court award from an active-duty or retired military member. The parties married in 1982. In 1993, the wife filed for divorce. At trial, the wife introduced photographs showing bruises, alleging that husband abused her, and they were admitted for the limited purpose of determining whether her request for an unequal division of community property should be granted. The father received primary physical custody.  The district court gave the mother an unequal distribution. The district court also determined that whatever child support obligation remained after a property equalization payment by the mother, she would not be required to pay any child support. The husband claimed and the wife admitted that she had personal property that belonged to the husband prior to marriage. The district court ordered that "each party shall have their [sic] own personal property, which is in their [sic] possession, as their [sic] sole and separate property." The Supreme Court reversed. The Court noted while NRS 125.150(4) provided that the separate property of a spouse may be awarded to the other spouse for support, there is no indication that the district court intended to make such an award in this instance. The Court held that it was error for the district court to fail to order that the personal separate property of each party be returned, absent some finding that the property must be awarded as support. Finally, examine whether the member owns property in the jurisdiction. While not legally determinative of anything, the fact of whether a member has chosen to purchase real estate in the forum often is seen as having a strong correlation with whether the member treats the jurisdiction as "home." 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. The three Tennessee courts all rejected arguments that recharacterization by the member was silently allowed by orders that did not prohibit (or mention) disability pay. They rejected all arguments regarding "implied federal pre-emption." Hillyer involved a 1986 divorce decree, while Johnson construed a decree issued in 1996; the fact that the decrees at issue were issued after passage of the USFSPA, or Mansell, was considered irrelevant. It must be noted that after the Court adopted the Missouri definition, it became common practice for litigants to claim that the case law of Missouri must solely control determination of issues of joint physical custody. We do not believe that this Court intended to adopt the case law of Missouri merely because it chose to borrow that State’s statutory definition of joint legal custody. While Missouri case law may be informative, and perhaps persuasive, it should not control the analysis and outcome of a case. A trial court must not be prevented or limited in its review of all law that is relevant and applicable to the facts and issues before it. B> Casas v. Thompson, 228 Cal. Rptr. 33, 720 P.2d 921 (Cal. 1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1012 (1987), was a clear restatement of the law regarding military retirement benefits division as it had evolved in California prior to 1988, which was followed by several other states. It was a partition case ten years after entry of a divorce decree that had not mentioned the retirement. Ultimately, she spouse was granted partition of the omitted retirement from the date she filed her petition, but no arrears. The Court of Appeals affirmed with a few modifications not important here. Casas v. Thompson, 217 Cal. Rptr. 471 (Cal. Ct. App. 1985). The Supreme Court reversed. There was a substantial revision of Schwartz v. Schwartz, 107 Nev. 378, 812 P.2d 1268 (1991). The Court held a district court may not deny a removal petition solely to maintain the existing visitation pattern. The enhancement test was replaced by a showing that the moving party’s quality of life will not decrease by the move. The Court rejected the request of movant to adopt a presumption in favor of removal. However, the Court stated: In Ogawa v. Ogawa, 125 Nev. ___, ___ P.3d ___ (Adv. Opn. No. 51, Nov. 12, 2009), the district court had entered findings that Nevada was the "habitual residence" of the subject minor children for purposes of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Obviously irritated with the father, who appeared only through counsel and ignored all orders to return the children from Japan, or provide discovery, the district court also entered a default judgment against the father, and awarded the mother all of the community property and child and spousal support in amounts not supported by the evidence, sole legal and physical custody of the children, and attorney’s fees and costs, all without considering the merits of the case. The father appealed. Very few courts have reached the opposite result.14 Others have reached that opposite result, just to be reversed on appeal or affirmed upon narrow findings of special circumstances.15 Since military pay tables are readily discoverable, in print or even on the Internet,1 the ability of the member to appear may not be relevant to a child support determination, although there could be exceptions.2 So it may be possible to defeat claims for an SCRA stay of child support proceedings. It is also possible to get support in advance of a formal court order. Each branch of the military service has its own rules regarding support of family members in the absence of a court order, and the rules govern both child support and spousal support (alimony). The property settlement agreement provided that the husband was to pay alimony to the wife until her death or remarriage. The agreement did not merge into the decree. The husband sought to terminate payments based upon wife's cohabiting with another man, which he asserted was a common law marriage. The district court declined to do so although it found that the alleged cohabitation has gone on for several years, the relationship was not a defense to the action. This number is the separate property value for the term of the marriage.  Cord v. Neuhoff, 94 Nev. 21, 573 P.2d 1170 (1978) The parties were married in 1931, and remained married until the husband’s death in 1974. The husband’s Will claimed that the entire estate was his separate property. The widow commenced an action asserting the estate to be community property and her entitlement to one half of it. There was a postnuptial agreement between them wherein the wife released present and future community property rights. The district court dismissed the action based upon the postnuptial agreement. The district court found the property provisions of the agreement enforceable. In the agreement, the widow released her present and future community property rights. The district court concluded because the widow gave up her present and future community property rights, she was barred from asserting a community interest in the decedent’s estate. The court also found her action barred by laches. As a general rule, ERISA preempts any "state law"1 that "relates to" employee benefit plans.2 Further, ERISA contains the basic prohibition that a court may not order a plan to provide any benefit not explicitly permitted by its plan documents. ERISA simply does not, however, contain any provision addressing the possibility that a retiree could divorce, his spouse could relinquish her status as beneficiary, the retiree could then remarry, and then seek to have those benefits paid to the intended later spouse (and widow). As to both loans and withdrawals, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board will honor "most" court orders restricting distribution (such as preliminary injunctions prohibiting withdrawals) or safeguarding funds for other purposes (such as child support or alimony awards). Thus, in divorce cases or successive spouse cases, there could be some element of a "race to the courthouse," with one party trying to get a restraining order on file and served on the TSP before the employee can withdraw the funds.4 There is little Nevada statutory law specifically directed to retirement benefits. Instead, they fall under the general definition of community property in NRS 123.220: "all property" acquired after marriage, with certain exceptions. All such property is divided under NRS 125.150 - the key statute governing division of property upon divorce - which mandates an equal distribution of community property, in the absence written reasons for finding a "compelling reason" to make an unequal disposition.1 The district court held a custody hearing, during which the parties presented contradictory testimony regarding how much time Mr. Rivero actually spent with the child. The district court ruled that the matter did not warrant an evidentiary hearing. The district court further found that the use of the term joint physical custody in the divorce decree did not accurately reflect the timeshare arrangement that the parties were actually practicing, in which Ms. Rivero seemed to have physical custody most of the time. As a result, the court denied Ms. Rivero's motion for child support, found that the parties had joint physical custody, and ordered the parties to mediation to establish a more equal timeshare plan to reflect ajoint physical custody arrangement. The need for such adjustments is obvious. In January, 1972, the government’s Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) was 123.2, meaning that by comparison with the base year of 1967, it took an extra $23.20 to have the same purchasing power that $100 had commanded.1 Put another way, dollars were worth only 81¢. By January, 1992, the CPI-U was 413.8, meaning that it took an extra $313.80 to gain the purchasing power of the original $100, or that each dollar was worth only 24¢. If there had been no cost of living adjustments, a $1,000 per month retirement starting in 1972 would only be paying the equivalent value of $240 per month in 1992. Inflation has continued, cumulatively, since that time. As to improvements to real estate, the Court found that "usually" simple reimbursement without interest is the proper measure, unless the party making the claim can establish that appreciation of the property was due to the improvements, not the market, in which case the trial court may apportion appreciation to the contribution of the party making the claim. 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 is presumed that a gift of one-half of the value of the joint tenancy property was intended which can 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. During a hearing concerning visitation, the father advised the district court that he had received a job offer in Georgia and might be moving there. The court ordered if the father moved to Georgia, he could have visitation one weekend a month, plus a portion of the holidays and summer. The court reduced the father’s support by $100 in any month that he traveled to see his sone that his son traveled to Georgia, and completely abated support during summer weeks that the child spent in Georgia.  The Court per NRS 125B.080(6)  sua sponte reversed the district court for giving the non primary parent an abatement in child support during extended summer visitation even though that issue had not been appealed. The Court cited Anastassatos v. Anastassatos, 112 Nev. 317, 913 P.2d 652 (1996) in support of its ruling. Some courts faced with a post-divorce recharacterization of retirement benefits as disability benefits, post-divorce, have simply redistributed other property, or compensated the former spouse by an award of post-divorce alimony.15 Second, there is the "default" - what would happen if the court deemed the former spouse to be the SBP beneficiary, at the full base amount, but took no steps to alter the ramifications of that election. The spouse would be "over-secured," to a greater or lesser extent." The smaller the lifetime interest of the former spouse happened to be, the larger the share ofthe premium that the member would pay253 If the member died first, payments to the spouse would increase from $233.75 to $550. If the spouse died first, payments to the member would increase from $701.25 to $1,000. The down-side to such an arrangement for the former spouse is risk of further litigation - some members have sought court orders revoking such bargained-for "irrevocable" awards, usually based on the changed circumstances of one party or the other. Even when the former spouse prevails, there is a substantial expense.1 Especially when the retirement of the member is to be many years in the future, it might be necessary, as a practical matter, to state in the Court order a presumed rate of cost of living increases, and include a reservation of jurisdiction to submit a later order, resetting the spousal percentage as a percentage of whatever the member actually receives at that time. Even so, for the next fifteen years, the member will have a different, lower percentage of COLA increase than the spouse will have. And if the member does not retire exactly on an anniversary of his retirement eligibility date, then the former spouse’s hypothetical COLA increase date will be on a different date then the member’s date, in perpetuity. However, failure of a spouse to prepare and record such a written inventory does not automatically result in forfeiture of the property’s status as separate; rather, it may be used as evidence to be considered in determining whether the property is separate or community.8 Upon separation from service, a tangle of other rules spring into effect. First, TSP accounts of less than $200 are automatically distributed at the time of separation. If between $200 and $3,500, the sums may be left in the TSP, or withdrawn in a single payment or multiple payments (cashed, or rolled over into an IRA or other retirement account). For accounts containing more than $3,500, the TSP balance can be partially or fully withdrawn in a single payment, or by way of a series of monthly payments, or by way of a life annuity. Any combination of the full withdrawal options is called a "mixed withdrawal." B> Criticism of the "Rivero Formula" falls into three broad categories. First, as noted in the article written by Mary Anne Decaria, which was attached as an exhibit to the Petition for Rehearing,22 the "Rivero Formula" completely negates the effect of the deviation factors set forth in NRS 125.080 in certain circumstances. 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