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The Marren and Page Case List In the Matter of Parental Rights as to Q L R
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Temporary Spousal SupportB> Congress reacted by enacting the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act (the USFSPA) on September 8, 1982. 5 The USFSPA legislatively overruled McCarty (at least in part6) and again made treatment of retired pay dependent on the divorce laws of the jurisdictions granting decrees. By fits and starts, every state in the union has permitted military retirement benefits to be divided as property, at least in certain circumstances. B> Presuming the petitioning parent establishes that another country was the habitual residence of the child at the time of the childfs removal or retention, the next question is whether the left-behind parent had "rights of custody" regarding that child. The Hague Convention provides three potential sources of custody rights: (1) operation of law, (2) judicial or administrative decision, or (3) an agreement having legal effect under the law of that State.1@ 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. Similar results have been seen in the line of authority dealing with disability benefits, which are dealt with in greater detail in a separate article. After the mediation, but before the next district court hearing, Ms. Rivero served a subpoena on Mr. Rivero's employer for his employment records. The district court granted Mr. Rivero's motion to quash the subpoena, explaining that under the divorce decree, each party had joint physical custody, neither party owed child support, and the only pending issue was whether the parties could agree on a timeshare plan. Ms. Rivero then argued that the district court should reopen the child support issue and allow relevant discovery. Having clarified the circumstances under which a district court may modify a child support order, we note that this case is an example of the immediate and repetitive motions that can plague the district court, even after the parties have stipulated to child support. Less than two months after the district court entered the parties' divorce decree, in which they agreed that neither party would receive child support, Ms. Rivero moved the court for child support. Then she did so again, 11 months later. Such constant relitigation of a court order, especially one to which the parties stipulate, is pointless absent a change in the circumstances underlying the initial order. The parties were divorced in California. The father was ordered to pay $200 per month in child support. In September 1994, a California court ordered the father to pay the $200 per month and, pay $425 per month toward the amount the arrears. The arrears amounted to approximately $20,000. The parties both subsequently relocated to Nevada. In February 1996, the father received notice that he was in arrears and that $625 per month would be withheld from his wages. Later, a hearing master conducted a hearing to determine whether the fathers drivers license should be revoked for failure to pay support. The master recommended that the father pay $5,625 within 30 days and continue paying $625 per month. The father appealed. The district court determined that the father was not more than 12 months behind in his child support. The district court also determined that the suspension of his drivers license was unjustified and counterproductive. B> One California court, surveying cases from around the country, held that Mansell does not apply to post-judgment waivers of retirement pay at all, because Mansell held only that disability benefits could not be divided "upon divorce."1 The court ordered that the former spouse be compensated for all reductions in the sums awarded at divorce. Citing a pre-Mansell case from California,2 the decision held that to whatever degree direct enforcement of a divorce decree might be prevented by application of federal law, the member would receive any sums that had been awarded to the spouse as a resulting trustee of her funds, and must pay them over to her. The defendant also contended that since NRS 33.100 (1)(b) required that a person who violated a TPO shall be imprisoned "in the county jail" that meant those cases could only be handled by the district court and justice court because they only had jurisdiction to incarcerate in the county jail. The Supreme Court rejected that argument stating: The universe has changed. We certainly do some amazing things for our beloved pets these days, from Burberry raincoats and Louis Vuitton collars, to aromatherapy massages and holistic biscuits. Some buy cutesy little dresses, outfits, and jewelry for their pets. There are numerous stores in the Las Vegas area alone devoted solely to the business of pampering your pet. Some of us have even hired psychotherapists to assist "Fluffy" with his or her "issues." Some states, such as Texas, which found the USFSPA inadequate by itself to allow the re-opening of gap cases, never passed legislation permitting those divorced during the gap to bring their decrees into conformity with those divorced before McCarty or after the USFSPA. Divorces during the gap that gave 100 percent of the retirement benefits to the memeber because of McCarty remain unalterable in such states for lack of a mechanism through which to litigate them.13 The system has been amended several times, creating classes of PERS retirees depending upon when they accrued service credits, and when they began service. Members are credited with 2.5% of their highest average compensation during any three years (usually, their last three years) for each year of service earned before July 1, 2001; that credit increases to 2.67% for all years thereafter.1 Those that began service before July 1, 1985, can earn a maximum of 90% of their average compensation, and can accrue service credit for up to 36 years; those that began service after that date can earn up to 75% of their average compensation and can accrue service credit for up to 30 years.2 E. 1. Failure to exercise or exercising more than the number of overnights upon which the parenting time adjustment is based, is a material change of circumstances. The parties purchased the house in 1977, and held title as joint tenants. The wife claimed that she should be reimbursed for one-half of the $69,000 down payment she made. The district court divided the house 60/40 in favor of the wife. The district court rebuffed the wifes claim for reimbursement. B> Congress reacted by enacting the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act (the USFSPA) on September 8, 1982. 5 The USFSPA legislatively overruled McCarty (at least in part6) and again made treatment of retired pay dependent on the divorce laws of the jurisdictions granting decrees. By fits and starts, every state in the union has permitted military retirement benefits to be divided as property, at least in certain circumstances. The Supreme Court reversed on both issues. The Court noted that where payments were made with community funds which was owned by one spouse before marriage, the community was entitled to a pro tanto interest in such property in the ratio that the community payments bear to the payments made with separate funds citing to Sly v. Sly, 100 Nev. 236, 679 P.2d 1260 (1984) and Barrett v. Franke, 46 Nev. 170, 208 P. 435 (1922). The Court also noted that the fact that the post marriage payments were principally derived from the earnings of the owner-spouse was of no consequence and that the earnings of either spouse during the marriage were considered to be community regardless of which spouse earned the greater income or which spouse supported the community citing to Cord v. Neuhoff , 94 Nev. 21, 573 P.2d 1170 (1978). Because the income used to pay down the mortgage on the land was acquired during the marriage it was held error for the district court to have characterized the property as the wifes separate property. As to the residence, the Court similarly held that where a portion of the purchase price of separate property was paid for with community funds, the community acquired a pro tanto interest. Citing to Cord v. Cord , 98 Nev. 210, 644 P.2d 1026 (1982), the Court held where a spouse made a conscious choice to use his or her separate property, rather than available community property, to pay community expenses, the use of the separate property constituted a gift to the community. B> The "anti-contingency-fee-in-domestic relations-cases" ethics rule is derived from the majority common law position established many years ago. The usually cited public policy consideration is the state's strong interest in promoting and preserving marriage. This principle is supposed to be served by prohibiting attorneys from taking divorce cases on contingencies, thus preventing counsel from "promoting divorce" and "hindering reconciliation" because of the attorney's (contingent) financial interest in the divorce proceeding. See, e.g., Myers v. Handlon, 479 N.E.2d 106 (Ind. App. 1985). is is why military retirement benefits must be addressed at the time of divorce. 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. Theoretically, lawyers can note the absurdity of such support figures, and judges can vary upward from them. The crush of the docket and the inherent ease of resting on defaults, however, makes variance rare even when non-custodial parents make several hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. In my experience, when variance is granted, the dollar sum of the change is often niggling, as judges require proof that "it's needed" rather than staying focused on the means of the obligor. 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).1 Where one party to a marriage is a member of the military, that party has long enjoyed the ability to maintain a State of residence in one place, while actually living in a number of other places during the military career. Nevada law is in the mainstream on this issue. 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