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A former spouse’s right to a portion of retired pay as property terminates upon the death of the member or the former spouse; the court order can also provide for an earlier termination.8 Any right to receive payments under the USFSPA is non-transferable; the former spouse may not sell, assign, The spate of State statutory enactments appear rooted in the patriotic fervor attendant to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the huge number of people affected by the rounds of deployments and activation of Reserve and Guard units. But such enactments take the focus off of the child involved in such cases, in apparent contradiction of the judicial policy that in making custody determinations, the court’s sole consideration is the best interest of the child,9 which provides "the polestar for judicial decision."10 It was thought on passage of the 1991 amendments that the "no partition" bar was pretty complete. Some courts, however, have elected to disregard it, holding that the underlying state law of their state constituted a built-in "reservation of jurisdiction" to divide any omitted asset, including military retirement benefits, but the linedrawing can be pretty fine. P> It is beyond the scope of this paper, but there is some doubt as to the effect of a separate maintenance decree if one of the parties dies before divorce. During the partiesf mutual lives, however, a decree of separate maintenance apparently may (but is not required to) permit the earning spouse to treat all such earnings as separate property. In combination with the provision permitting a court to change its separate maintenance orders and decrees at any time,3 NRS 123.220(2) creates the peculiar state of affairs in which a court can decree income to be separate or community property, alternately, during a continuing marriage. P> This list was excerpted from a complete treatment of this subject matter, entitled The Marren/Page Case List, which can be viewed, along with Between 1981 and 1989, McCarty, the USFSPA, and Mansell set up the framework within which all courts since then have struggled with issues relating to military retirement benefits and disability benefits, made much more confusing by the retroactive application of each later piece of the structure. Members convinced of the righteousness of their cause continue to file such actions, sometimes as a class. The results have continued to be consistent.1 Next, determine the member’s "home of record" with the military. According to the Legal Assistance Policy Division of the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the "Home of Record" is merely the State of residence of a member when the member entered the service of the armed forces. This may, or may not, be the same as the member’s domicile - the place that, when the member eventually goes "home," he will return to. In actuality, "Home of Record" is used for military purposes solely for the purpose of determining the amount of moving expenses that will be provided to a member and his family upon termination of military service. It can and often is changed, but sometimes members simply don’t get around to changing this notation for many years during active duty service. A former spouse’s right to a portion of retired pay as property terminates upon the death of the member or the former spouse; the court order can also provide for an earlier termination.8 Any right to receive payments under the USFSPA is non-transferable; the former spouse may not sell, assign, The purpose of the uniform acts is to provide certainty as to jurisdictional decisions - once facts are known (by admission or judicial decision), only one jurisdictional result should ever be possible under the rules they establish. By extending the objective 6-month look-back period set out in the UCCJEA by a totally subjective period in which the left-behind parent claimed she "thought" the children were "temporarily" absent, however, the Court has made determination of child custody jurisdiction in Nevada far more uncertain and subjective than the uniform act tries to make it. SPAN> Rutar v. Rutar, 108 Nev. 203, 827 P.2d 829 (1992) The parties were married for 18 years. The parties split about $1.5 million in property. The wife was the primary caretaker of children and had not worked outside home in 12 years and received no income-producing property. The district court awarded $500 per month per child support, plus $1,000 per month rehabilitative alimony for three and one-half years. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court noted that both parties "contributed substantially to the marriage but are left with vastly disparate earning capacities after the divorce." Id. at 206. The wife’s current educational pursuits "will not necessarily enable her to support herself in the manner to which she had been accustomed" where she was 45 and had difficulties with English, was still raising two children, and would be 50 when she obtained her undergraduate degree. Id. at 207-08. The Court indicated that support should continue for at least eight years because the wife had not worked at all for the past 12 years, spoke little English, and sought reeducation. The Court directed the lower court to retain jurisdiction to further modify the award as circumstances changed. The Variable Separation Incentive (VSI)1 and Special Separation Benefit (SSB)2 programs were early-retirement programs offered at times by the military by means of which members could terminate service before completing 20 years, receiving lump-sum or time payments instead of a regular military pension.3 The military also developed an early (15-19 year) retirement program known as the "Temporary Early Retirement Authority" (TERA) in 1993.4 In those cases in which there was such an award, no procedural mechanism existed for the enforcement of the interest, leaving spouses to rely upon general state court remedies (e.g., contempt) for enforcement of judgments. What seems like an adequate tracing may not always be so, and in Nevada at least two entirely different tracing mechanisms, and reasoning, exist. In Malmquist v. Malmquist,13 addressing the primary residence, the Nevada Supreme Court used a combination of two approaches to allocate, SPAN> If the Court is reluctant to adopt a specific percentage of time as the threshold to consideration of joint physical custody as a possible custody award, it is requested that the Court give clear guidance that if joint physical custody is to be considered an option in a less than equal time share, the time share must be close to equal. Without this clarification, the definition becomes meaningless, leaving the parties to argue over and the trial court to figure out what constitutes"significant periods of time." In 2001, the Arizona Court of Appeals again dealt with the contract theory, federal law supremacy assertion, and claims of "involuntariness" that appeared in several of the cases discussed above, in Danielson v. Evans.1 Because the divorce at issue occurred after Mansell, the prevailing former spouse in Danielson was held to the "higher standard of clarity" in the underlying decree (discussed above) to protect her interests. In the opinion from the New York Court, the Court’s awareness of the emotional bond between human and pet was evident when they stated, "Cognizant of the cherished status accorded to pets in our society, the strong emotions engendered by disputes of this nature...given his limited life expectancy, Lovey...remain where he has lived, prospered, loved and been loved for the past four years."6 7. Although there is some discussion in the record about other actions being brought by the parties in different jurisdictions, it does not appear that either party actually undertook any actions outside of the district court matter. Specifically, there is nothing in the record that Mother filed an action with the Attorney Generalfs Office, nor does the record reflect that Mother filed an action with any Court under the International Parental Kidnaping Crime Act ("IPKCA"). The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court noted that the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution did not foreclose another custody order based upon a subsequent change of circumstances citing to Lyerla v. Ramsay, 82 Nev. 250, 415 P.2d 623 (1966). The Court found that the record could be read to show that a change of circumstances found by the district court, and to support its conclusion that the child’s welfare was best served by awarding custody to the mother, noting that the mother remarried and established a home suitable for the child’s care and there was no suggestion that the mother was unfit to enjoy custody. The Court noted that the policy of the State was that custody should not be given to a nonparent unless the parent is found to be unfit citing to McGlone v. McGlone, 86 Nev. 14, 464 P.2d 27 (1970). As to notice to the father, he had not been awarded custody by the Texas court and was not a party to the action. The Court held that notice to the father was not required. r the book, I cooked up two tables showing the effect on the spousal percentage of causing the spouse, or the member, to pay the entirety of the SBP premium. But this was not adequate, because it did not allow for other common forms of orders (for example, that the parties equally divide the premium), and because the percentages are set out to only two decimal places, and they should be set out to four decimal places to avoid rounding errors. I> Courts throughout the country are in fair consensus hold that a spouse can receive a share of any early retirement taken by a member, under the theory that the "early out" benefits are as divisible as the retirements that were given up to receive those benefits, whether or not there is any federal mechanism for direct payment to the former spouse. Very few courts have reached the opposite result.Others have reached that opposite result, just to be reversed on appeal or upheld upon narrow findings of special circumstances. In Wolff, this Court reviewed NRS 286.6703 and surmised that if the employee died before retirement, a former spouse alternate payee would nevertheless receive "a refund of the contribution For example, NRS 286.6703(3)(e) is pretty obviously intended to prohibit PERS itself from being forced to make any payment to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement of the member, but it is not phrased as prohibiting merely payments "from the system," like the subsection above it. Rather, its language was apparently modeled on portions of ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1055(c), and the resulting language is phrased in such a way that, on its face, any order requiring "the payment of any allowance or benefit to an alternate payee before the retirement of the member" would make the order invalid. The case facts recited in the opinion indicated that the doctor was hard working and managed her practice with frugality, and was solely responsible for patient acquisition. Thus, if there was no previous order giving a right to the former spouse to be the SBP beneficiary, the one-year deemed election period runs from the date of a post-divorce order concerning the SBP.16 This is true for orders that issued prior to the effective date of the SBP deemed beneficiary law, as well as orders that inadequately attempted to provide for the SBP, or omitted all mention of the benefit.17 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.2 The smaller the lifetime interest of the former spouse happened to be, the larger the share of the premium that the member would pay.3 If the member died first, payments to the spouse would increase from $233.75 to $550.00. If the spouse died first, payments to the member would increase from $701.25 to $1,000.00. Further, if the former spouse was receiving both DIC and SBP, and the remarriage occurred when the former spouse was over 55 years, the SBP payment is apparently increased to the full amount (in other words, the DIC offset is replaced by additional SBP dollars, leaving the only effect one of taxation).8 Having the member bear the entire premium would only appear to be a correct result if the court determined, based on the entirety of the parties' economic positions, that the result was mandated as a matter of disparity of income. Similarly, it would be improper to have the former spouse bear the entirety of the SBP premiums, at least in those states in which the courts are required to equally distribute marital property and debts, because the benefit being accorded to the member in the event of the spouse's death is greater, and there is no cost to that survivorship interest. Days before the six month NRCP 60(b) time limit ran, the wife filed a motion to "vacate the divorce decree and for a new trial." The wife’s expert evaluated the community property and concluded that the wife had received approximately $100,000 to the husband’s $600,000 in net community property assets, that in his "professional opinion, the [agreement] was grossly inequitable and unfair to the wife," and that from his interview of her, he believed she "had very little understanding or conception of the nature of the community property these parties had and did not fully understand that she had a community property interest in her husband’s law firm P> The court has continuing jurisdiction to modify child custody awards after entry of a decree, irrespective of any express statement of continuing jurisdiction, under the above statute and NRS 125.510 (permitting a determination of custody during the pendency of an action, at the final hearing, or any time thereafter during the child’s minority, and permitting modification or the vacating of any such order, "even if the divorce was obtained by default with an appearance in the action by one of the parties," but providing that the person seeking such an order "shall submit to the jurisdiction of the court.") The Court invited Congress to change the statutory scheme if divisibility of retired pay was desired, stating: "We recognize that the plight of an ex-spouse of a retired service member is often a serious one," and noting that: In any event, for the short term, there remains the question of arrearages, consisting of sums of retired pay that retirees waived and personally collected in the form of disability pay to the exclusion of the former spouse. As to those cases, all of the above factors remain relevant. The legislation did not contain any authority for DFAS to issue retroactive payments. Next, Jill tried state court. She filed an action for partition of the retirement, adding a state court action for enforcement of the parties’ contract to divide retirement. The Virginia trial court dismissed the action, finding that the German decree did not constitute a written contract because it was not signed by the parties, in accordance with German procedure, and if it was an oral contract, the statute of limitations for enforcement thereof had run. B> The cases addressing the question of the harms suffered by children from international abduction speak of those harms stemming from either "the ´removal [of a child] from its habitual environment,’ or by ´a refusal to restore a child to its own environment after a stay abroad.’"1 This Order is intended to be merged to the decree of divorce in this matter, and is subject to all provisions of that Decree except in cases where this QDRO and the Decree contradict, in which case the QDRO shall control. 1) Base support mainly considers the cost of supporting a child who lives in one household. When a parent cares for a child overnight, that parent should cover many of the child's unduplicated costs, while the other parent will not have to spend as much money for food, utility, and other costs for the child. Ironically, given the enormous amount of litigation regarding disability benefits and military retirement benefits during the past fifteen years or so, it appears that many of the specificissues at

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