The Marren and Page Case List Sprenger v Sprenger Separate Property transmutation into community property For example, without clear definitions, how are litigants, attorneys and courts to know what it means to award or be awarded "primary physical custody" or "sole physical custody," or whether any difference exists between the two terms. Although we now know what "joint physical custody" is supposed to mean, there is no real clarity in the law until we are able to compare it to all other well-defined and understood types of custody. Therefore, the FLS renews its request that the Supreme Court take this opportunity to define all types of custody available under Nevada law. b) When one parent exercises physical custody for 25 percent or more but less than 30 percent of a calendar year, each parent's respective share of the total support After the said first election, there shall be elected at the general election which immediately precedes the expiration of the term of his predecessor, one district judge in each of the respective judicial districts . . . . The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years . . . from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification . . . . b) If there is not a court order awarding parenting time, the court shall determine the child support award without consideration of the parenting expense adjustment. If a parenting tirne order is subsequently issued or is issued in the same proceeding, then the child support order shall include application of the parenting expense adjustment. Subd. 2. Calculation of parenting expense adjustment. The obligor is entitled to a parenting expense adjustment calculated as provided in this subdivision. The court shall: (1) find the adjustment percentage corresponding to the percentage of parenting time allowed to the obligor below: 1. Determine each parent's monthly income available for child support under s. DCF 150.03 (1). In determining whether to impute income based on earning capacity for an unemployed parent or a parent employed less than full time under s. DCF 150.03 (3), the court shall consider benefits to the child of having a parent remain in the home during periods of placement and the additional variable day care costs that would be incurred if the parent worked more. Members who first entered service between September 8, 1980, and July 31, 1986, must use the highest 3 years of basic pay rather than terminal basic pay. This has the effect of lowering retired pay for members whose pay increased at any time during their three most highly compensated years of service. The Governor signed the bill on July 5, 1995, still containing the non-retroactivity provisions, which is why arguments relating to the legislation do not appear in the record of this Court’s opinion in Wolff in 1996. B> Since 1948, reservists have had a retirement system of their own. The big difference for reservists is that both service and age elements must be satisfied; the reservist must accumulate 20 years of creditable service, and must reach the age of 60. SPAN> Federal law allows former spouses to collect up to fifty percent of disposable retired pay otherwise payable to retired military service members (65% when certain arrears are being garnished in addition to present payments). Military retirement benefits can be treated as property to be divided between the parties, or as a source of payment of child or spousal support, or both. Shortly before the wedding, the couple entered into a prenuptial agreement. The husband did not attach a schedule of assets until approximately a year after the marriage.  The district court invalidated the alimony waiver portion of the agreement. The husband appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed and noted that it reviewed the validity of a premarital agreements de novo. Another variant, found in Europe, considers property individual until divorce or death, at which time it is essentially treated as though it were community property.5 SUP> Four years after the McNabney decision, the Legislature amended NRS 125.150, eliminating the "respective merits of the parties" language and inserting new directions. After 1993, NRS 125.150(1) provided, in pertinent part, that in granting a divorce, the court: The disconnect, and this discussion, is fully applicable to the military and Civil Service context, as well as in private retirements, because practitioners now are required to deal not only with the standard defined benefit plan, but also with the Thrift Savings Plan (a defined contribution plan). 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,5 other courts have had no problem with the direct substitution of alimony for the intended property award. In Austin (Scott) v. Austin,6 the court instituted an award of alimony, that had been previously reserved until remarriage, in lieu of the The Supreme Court reversed. The Court held that an adoption severs the legal relationship between a child and her natural relatives. The Court further held that once an adoption is entered, a grandparent lacks standing to petition for visitation rights. The Court held that the grandparent’s petition for visitation was untimely and the district court lacked jurisdiction to grant visitation. I answered "no," based on the cases in the annotations. Specifically, in Bobby Berosini, Ltd. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 114 Nev. 1348, 971 P.2d 383 (1998), Berosini had won at trial, but the judgment was reversed on appeal. On remand, PETA requested and was awarded fees incurred during the prior appeal. This was reversed by the Nevada Supreme Court, which held: There has been a large wave of pet custody cases in recent years, and more Courts are starting to realize the value of the emotional bond between a human and their pet. A New York Appeals Court granted custody of a pet cat "Lovey" as a condition that the plaintiff pay all vet expenses. The Plaintiff and Defendant in this case were not married, but were former roommates. When they wanted to go their separate ways, the Plaintiff sought permanent custody of his "property," i.e. "Lovey."1 An obvious lesson of the Harms case is to showcase the vulnerability of the legal position of overseas spouses. If they choose to defend themselves in foreign divorce actions, and litigate retirement issues, they will receive orders unenforceable under U.S. federal law, and have to face res judicata arguments as well. If they try to "reserve" the question, they might not ever be able to get a State court to find it has jurisdiction to enforce the "reserved" rights. And if they ignore the action, the member will be able to take a judgment against them on all contested issues, by default (again, with res judicata possibilities looming). While the facts of the specific case would dictate the result, deviation would probably be denied, because the detriment suffered in the household where the child spent 57% of his time, with only $5,000 income for that household, would presumably be greater than the benefit that the party making $10,000 per month could get from having support lowered from $785 to $664. The $121 difference would probably be found to mean more to the household with lesser income. Second, the court will focus its inquiry on whether the extra time spent with the non-custodial parent results in a greater financial burden on the non-custodial parent and in a concomitant lesser financial burden on the custodial parent. The Washington State guidelines state the test clearly: There is a significant level of consistency in the foreign decisions with the basic reasoning of Feder. In Cohen v. Cohen,11 for example, the parties came from Israel to New Jersey. The mother took the child back to Israel in April, 1992, against the wishes of the father. He applied under the Convention for the return of the child to the United States from Israel, and his request was granted. Even though the mother argued that her job and move to the United States of America was temporary, and that she did not have immigrant status here, the court found that the United States of America was the habitual residence of the child and that was the determining factor of the Convention. Five years later, the Eighth Circuit in Bush v. Taylor, 912 F.2d 989, vacating 893 F.2d 962 (8th Cir. 1990), concurred as to the non-dischargeability of the former spouse’s future interest in payments to the former spouse, but held that any sums paid to the member and kept rather than being paid to the former spouse were retained by the member wrongfully, and he remained liable despite the bankruptcy for the full amount of payments that should have, but were not, made to the former spouse. The bankruptcy thus had no impact on the former spouse’s rights. This approach, known as the "source of the benefit" method, would be repeated in later years by courts trying to decide whether former spouses had an interest in SSB or VSI benefits. The reasoning is that if one spouse derives an economic benefit attributable to services performed during the marriage, and there is not a specific legal prohibition on sharing that benefit with the former spouse, then the benefit should be divided in accordance with normal marital property law. We conclude that the district court properly disregarded the parties' definition of joint physical custody because the district court must apply Nevada's physical custody definition-not the parties' definition. We also conclude that the district court abused its discretion by not making specific findings of fact to support its decision that the custody arrangement constituted joint physical custody and that modification of the divorce decree was in the best interest of the child. B) if, n the case of a member or former member not in receipt of retired pay immediately before that termination of eligibility fo r retired pay, the member or former member had retired on the effective date of that termination of eligibility. For example, without clear definitions, how are litigants, attorneys and courts to know what it means to award or be awarded "primary physical custody" or "sole physical custody," or whether any difference exists between the two terms. Although we now know what "joint physical custody" is supposed to mean, there is no real clarity in the law until we are able to compare it to all other well-defined and understood types of custody. Therefore, the FLS renews its request that the Supreme Court take this opportunity to define all types of custody available under Nevada law. 4. In determining whether an injustice is present the district court should make reference to the factors and considerations in NRS 125B.080(8) and NRS 125B.060 (now repealed), with principal concern being given to the standard of living of the parties, their earning capacity and their relative financial means. Scenario six therefore is the same "default" as set out in scenario two, the only difference being that the base amount is lowered, from the entire retirement benefit, to only that portion of which 55% would equal the former spouse’s lifetime interest, in this hypothetical case, $454.55.2 Since the 6.5% premium is reduced to only $29.55, the member’s 75% of the $970.45 of remaining "disposable retired pay" yields $727.84, and the spouse’s 25% yields $242.61. The member effectively pays $22.16 toward the premium cost, and the spouse pays $7.39. The Department of Defense Office of the Actuary publishes "lump sum equivalency" charts for military retirements, using military-specific mortality tables, and including a muchignored disclaimer that its figures "should not be used for property settlements.?" The figures are updated annually, and can be downloaded from the DFAS website, www.dod.mil/dfas. Specifically, the Court found that the divorce decree waiver did not violate ERISA’s anti-alienation or anti-assignment clauses. It also rejected the oft-recited "distinction" between "welfare plans" and "pension plans," and held that a simple waiver by a spouse of survivor benefits does not satisfy the definition of either an "assignment" or a "transfer," and thus is not barred by the antialienation provision of ERISA, or otherwise. The Court reasoned that, therefore, a waiver could be effective even though it does not satisfy the requirements to be a QDRO. To initiate a "deemed election," the former spouse must file a written request with the appropriate Service Secretary requesting that the election be deemed to have been made. The written request must be filed within one year of the date of the court order. There are various technical requirements. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court rejected the district court’s conclusion that the motion was untimely, and held that when such a motion is filed at any time within the six months allowed by NRCP 60(b), alleging fraud or mutual mistake, and seeks for the first time to address the fairness of the decree of divorce, the motion should be considered on its merits (i.e., the fairness of the distribution of property should be explicitly examined by the reviewing court).  SUP> As discussed above, the ERISA statutory scheme is very large and complex, and the adoption of individual phrases and pieces of ERISA terminology carried with it a large potential of confusing the field and leading to unintended consequences.2 The five requirements in the statutory amendment3 for an order to be enforced by PERS were: P> The Court made it clear that the hearings on remand were not to allow any new evidence or testimony, but only complete the judicial act of entry of a judgment.3 After remand and entry of judgment, in a third appeal, the husband asked the Court to change its mind and order additional evidence be taken, but the Court held the parties to the evidence that they had presented as of the time of trial, stating that "equity does not require a remand to permit appellant to proffer explanatory matter he should have adduced at the first hearing of this cause."4 Thus, the critical time period as to evidence of the property belonging to the parties was the time of the divorce trial, not that of the (much-delayed) filing of the judgment. PAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> An attorney wishing to personally estimate present values can purchase computer programs that do the math involved quite quickly.34 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 reversed. The Court noted where part of the purchase price of one spouse’s separate property is paid with community funds, the community acquires a  pro tanto interest in the property, citing to Barrett v. Franke, 46 Nev. 170, 208 P. 435 (1922).  The Court held that there was no apparent justification for ignoring the community property interest in the home. As to the house which was built on the lot, the Court noted that the labor and skills of a spouse belong to the community citing to Ormachea v. Ormachea, 67 Nev. 273, 297, 217 P.2d 355, 467 (1950) and held that the husband’s labor was a community asset even if it occurred after his regular job ended.  The matter is somewhat more complicated, however, as detailed in the Thrift Savings Plan section of these materials. For now, it is probably sufficient to state that any disability presents an opportunity for a sum of cash, which could be substantial, to disappear during or after the divorce. If the divorce precedes separation from service, it is probably a good idea to get a court order on file just as early as possible either prohibiting any withdrawals, or at least sheltering the sum to which the former spouse is to assert a claim. 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