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Language on Divorce Decrees that protects spouses from members’ recharacterization of benefits

I respectfully dissent. While I agree that this case presents an opportunity to establish helpful precedent, I disagree with the majority's assessment of the record facts and the law that should apply to them. Quoting at length from a law review article analyzing the mathematics of the situation, the court found that acceptance of the husband¡¯s argument would have allowed him to collect the entirety of the accumulating "earnings" on the marital property accumulated by both parties. Three judges dissented.5 d) Notwithstanding the calculation provided in subsections (1 )(b) and (1 )(c), the percentage of parenting time may be determined using a method other than overnights if the parents have an alternative parenting time schedule in which a parent has significant time periods where the minor child is in the parents physical custody but does not stay overnight. The U.S. Supreme Court has made the lives of plan administrators easier, made the lives of divorce lawyers harder, and resolved a couple of questions while leaving others enormously unsettled and uncertain. The case was a consolidated appeal. In the first case, the decree approved by the district court stated that the husband's obligation to pay spousal support would terminate upon his death or the wife's remarriage. There was no reference to cohabitation. The wife later moved in with her boyfriend. The district court denied the husband's request to terminate alimony. In the second case, the decree ordered that "spousal support shall terminate upon the death or remarriage of [the wife] and the court will consider the issue of spousal support in the event of co-habitation by [the wife] with an adult male who significantly contributes to her support." The district court denied the husband's motion finding that the boyfriend had not significantly contributed to the wife's support, and that Nevada law contained no presumption that spousal support should terminate if the recipient resided with another person. First, their retirement benefits multiplier was reduced by one percentage point for each full year less than 30 years of service.4 Under this plan, at age 62, the reduction is removed and the retired pay multiplier is restored to 2.5% per year, yielding the same percentage payable under the earlier system.5 I respectfully dissent. While I agree that this case presents an opportunity to establish helpful precedent, I disagree with the majority's assessment of the record facts and the law that should apply to them. B> Fern v. United States was an unusual case in that the defendant was not a former spouse but the United States itself. The suit sought to have the USFSPA declared invalid to the extent that it entitled the government to reduce the retired pay flowing to the members themselves. In other words, the members contended that, irrespective of any award to any former spouse, the full sum of retired pay should be paid to the members. It alleged unconstitutional "taking" of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment, an unconstitutional impairment of contracts with the United States (by which the members contended that they alone were to receive the entirety of their retirement benefits), and that spousal awards under the USFSP A were due process violations. When the parties were divorced, the district court awarded each party an equal interest in the insurance policies owned by them, including an equal interest in the cash value of said policies, if any. After the decree was filed, the husband canceled his life insurance policies. The husband was found to be in contempt of court and was placed in custody. The district court concluded the cancellation of insurance policies to be a violation of the decree and ordered that the husband be divested of his interest in the marital residence. The equity was approximately one-half the face value of the policies. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court reiterated that a good faith sensible reason for to move has been defined as one not designed to frustrate the visitation rights of the noncustodial parent. Also reiterated that the district court should focus on the availability of adequate alternate visitation. The Court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the mother’s request to move to Florida and in concluding that the visitation proposed was not adequate to preserve and foster the type of relationship the father, who was a firefighter, had with his children. The Supreme Court held that although the district court has discretionary power to make equitable adjustments of the formula under NRS 125B.080, it may not devise a new formula based upon the number of children born to the paying parent at the time the receiving parent seeks application of the statute. Second, some states provide that once a threshold amount of visitation in excess of the "ordinary" 20% visitation is met, the support will be adjusted on a sliding scale to reflect the amount of time the children spend with each parent. Again, these states are making an assumption that when substantial amounts of time are spent with the child, then the costs to the noncustodial parent go up. The thresholds vary from state to state. For example, in Alaska, the threshold is 30% visitation; in Colorado, the threshold is 92 overnights; the District of Columbia requires 40% visitation; in Maryland, the proportionate calculation does not come into play until the child spends 35% of the time with the noncustodial parent; in Michigan, the threshold is 128 days; in North Carolina, the threshold is 123 days; in Oregon, the threshold is 35% custody; in Utah, the threshold is overnight visitation for more than 25% of the year; in Vermont, the threshold is 30% custody. The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court criticized the granting of bifurcated divorces. The Court noted that the husband had requested on the second day of trial that the court follow through with granting a divorce before the property matters had been settled. The husband, then failed to make a timely and proper objection to the bifurcation. The spousal rights provisions only apply only if the TSP account contains more than $3,500. If the participant is married and wants to make a partial withdrawal of funds, the spouse’s notarized written consent to the withdrawal is required. SUP> The Assembly, however, added a provision indicating that the legislation would only affect cases filed on or after the date of enactment. The "interested parties" turned their efforts to trying to eliminate that provision of the bill,6 with Ms. Cooney stating that the time-rule was adopted from California, but that it "in reality is not well-suited to Nevada."7 Client hereby grants Attorney a lien on any and all claims or causes of action that are related to the subject of Attorney’s representation under this Agreement. Attorney’s lien will be for any sums due and owing to Attorney at the conclusion of Attorney’s services. The lien will attach to any recovery Client may obtain, whether by arbitration award, judgment, settlement, or otherwise. Any amounts received by Attorney’s office on Client’s behalf may be used to pay Client’s account. But such should be the exception, not the rule. As to the routine custody, visitation, support, and fees orders, the great majority could be decided, ordered, signed, and filed before anyone leaves the courthouse. The process would be faster, the cost to litigants would decrease, and sparing the court the current interminable process of waiting for orders and checking them for accuracy weeks or months after hearings should actually lower net personnel time and costs. After considerable deliberation, the working group elected to note the problem, and note that our suggested resolution to the specific question posed in Rivero falls short of a solution to the problems we have noticed to the child support statutes generally, and to inform the Court that we see no way of correcting it absent elimination of the presumptive maximums. We realize that such a recommendation is outside the scope of what we were asked to do ¨C but the problem still requires attention. The lower court eventually dismissed Jill’s petition, finding that it had no subject matter jurisdiction to entertain a claim for division of a military retirement, because in the absence of a current existing marriage, it had no provision under State law permitting it to hear a case between these persons. In other words, the court found that the fact of a completed (German) divorce prevented the State court from acting. Perhaps the clearest expositions of the reasoning behind the two approaches are found in those cases in which a reviewing court splits as to which interpretation is most correct. The Iowa Supreme Court faced such a conflict in the case of In re Benson.4 The trial court had used a time-rule approach, with the wife¡¯s percentage to be applied to the sum the husband actually received, whenever he actually retired. The Supreme Court reversed. The Court noted that the litigation was between the father and the mother and that the maternal grandparents were not parties to it, have never enjoyed legal custody of their grandchildren, and have never asserted a claim to such custody. The grandparents court as witnesses and apparently were amenable to the responsibilities of custody should the court decide such a course to be the desirable one. The Court further noted that it was reluctant to approve an award of custody to nonparties. The Court then looked at the legislative history. The Court concluded that the custody statute and the guardianship statute, when read together, created a rebuttable presumption that a fit parent is to be preferred over nonparents with respect to custody. The Court further concluded that the best interest of the child is usually served by awarding his custody to a fit parent citing to Peavey v. Peavey, 85 Nev. 571, 460 P.2d 110 (1969), where we ruled that as between fit parents, a child of tender years should be awarded to the mother. Here, there was no finding that the father was unfit to have custody. The Court concluded that the father was entitled to the custody of his daughters. B> Does it contain language which requires payment to an alternate payee either in the form of a lump-sum payment, or as an allowance or benefit before the member terminates employment and is eligible for a refund of employee contributions or a retirement benefit? No lump-sum option is available if the member has chosen to receive benefits in any other form allowed under the plan. The parties had been married from 1949 to 1957, but they resumed cohabitation "almost immediately after their divorce," and remained together until they separated in 1981. Some real estate was owned by the parties in the form "husband and wife as joint tenants." The woman sought a restraining order prohibiting disposal of the property, declaratory relief stating that she was the owner of half of it, and an equitable distribution.

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