Alternatives and Analogies Federal Courts Early Outs and the Role of Alimon

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It is difficult to generalize. Courts have focused on the apparent tactics of the non-military spouse,3 or on the apparent bad-faith conduct of the member4 in reaching their decisions. The cases are - necessarily - very fact-specific. In Mississippi, pretty much the opposite approach to the mathematical construct of Alaska is directed, again by statute. There, courts are simply directed to deviate downward upon findings that expenses in the primary household have been "actually reduced" by the level of visitation/shared custody exercised by the other party. They are also directed to deviate upward upon findings that the non-custodial parent has no involvement with the child and so makes no direct contribution to the child’s expenses. HISTORY: (Added Sept. 8,1982, P.L. 97-252, Title X, 1002(a), 96 Stat. 730; Oct. 19,1984, P.L. 98-525, Title VI, Pa rt E,  643(a )-(d), 98 Stat. 2547.) (As amended Nov. 14, 1986, P.L. 99-661, Div. A, Title VI, Part D, 644(a), 100 Stat. 3887; April 21, 1987, P.L. 100-26, (3) in part, 7(h)(1) in part, 101 Stat. 273,282; Nov. 29,1989, P.L. 101-189, Div. A, Title VI, Part F, 653(a)(5), Title XVI, Part C, 1622(e)(6), 103 Stat. 1462,1605; Nov. 5, 1990, P.L.101-510, Div.A, Title V, Part E, 555(a)-(d), (f), (g), 104 Stat. 1569,1570; Dec. 5, 1991, P.L. 102-190, Div. A, Title X, Part E, 1061 (a)(7), 105 Stat. 1472; Oct. 23, 1992, P. L. 102-484, Div. A, Title VI, Subtitle E, 653(a), 106 Stat. 2426; Nov. 30, 1993, P.L. 103-160, Div. A, Title V, Subtitle E,  555(a), (b), Title XI, Su btide H, 1182(aX2), 107 Stat. 1666,1771 ; Feb. 10, 1996, P.L. 1 04-1 06; D iv. A, Title XV, 1501(c)(16), 110 Stat. 499; Aug. 22, 1996, P.L.104-193, Title III, Subtitle G, 362(c), 363(c)(1)-(3), 110 Sta t. 2246, 2249; Sept. 23, 1996, P.L. 104- 201, Div. A, Title VI, Sub title D, 636, 1 10 Stat. 2579.) When the former spouse found out about it, she tried to change the orders, but the retirement plan refused. When the worker dies, her benefits will simply stop. A malpractice action against the divorce lawyer is highly likely. Some courts have refused to permit the member to effectively transfer non-reviewable custody to a third party while staying the non-military parent’s access to the courts for child custody.4 In other contexts, courts have been much less sympathetic to arguments based on the parental preference doctrine.5 The parties were divorced in Indiana in 1968, and had five children together. The father was ordered to pay child support in the sum of $175 per week. The father defaulted and in 1980, the wife obtained a judgment from Indiana awarding her approximately $90,000 support arrears and $2,260 in attorney fees. The mother then recorded the judgment in Clark County district court, and the father was given notice of the judgment. The father failed to pay any amount of the judgment. The wife then began a lengthy series of attempts to secure payment, with the father doing what he could to avoid making payment. After the trust the father attempted to place his home into was set aside, he filed a homestead exemption. The wife then moved to have the  homestead exemption declared inapplicable to her judgment, primarily contending that public policy required an exception to the homestead laws in cases where a party was seeking to enforce a child support award. The district court denied the motion, concluding that the father could use the homestead exemption to prevent the mother from executing on his home. New Hampshire                                                                                                         X 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. The line-drawing can be pretty fine. It is difficult to generalize. Courts have focused on the apparent tactics of the non-military spouse,3 or on the apparent bad-faith conduct of the member4 in reaching their decisions. The cases are - necessarily - very fact-specific. The husband/attorney drafted a property settlement agreement providing, inter alia,that he would receive the law practice as his separate property and that the wife waived any interest in his income for the years 1990, 1991, and 1992. The wife had an attorney review the property settlement agreement on her behalf, but she signed the agreement in proper person. The husband and his attorney, both signed the agreement. In December, the husband filed a complaint for divorce with the district court through his counsel, the wife filed her answer in proper person, and the district court heard the matter and issued a decree of divorce that same day. The wife timely filed a Motion under NRCP 60(b) to vacate the decree and for a new trial alleging that the property settlement agreement was fundamentally unfair and that the husband had coerced her into signing the agreement. The wife submitted an affidavit stating that the husband had threatened her not to retain an attorney for the divorce action because he would lose his law practice, face imprisonment and resort to leaving the country due to tax evasion. The district court refused to set aside the agreement specifically finding that the wife had independent competent counsel to represent her and that the husband did not coerce her into signing the agreement. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded.  Res judicata does not bar the father from proving nonpaternity when there was possible presence of extrinsic fraud in the original proceeding. The issue of paternity was remanded to determine if the original judgment was procured by fraud because "a genuine issue of material fact exists as to whether [the wife] fraudulently concealed the child’s parentage."  It would appear that there is a conflict between the holdings of Gemma and Fondi on the one hand ("the employee spouse cannot by election defeat the nonemployee spouse¡¯s interest in the community property by relying on a condition solely within the employee spouse¡¯s control") and the 1988 holding in O'Hara on the other (the "community property interests of a nonemployee spouse do not limit the employee¡¯s freedom to agree to terms of retirement benefits"). The "bottom line" to all of the cases addressing early retirement, late retirement, disability, partition, bankruptcy, and death benefits, is that it is incumbent upon the attorneys, especially the attorney for the spouse, to anticipate post-divorce status changes and build that anticipation into the decree. Any failure to do so is an invitation to further litigation in some forum, between the parties, or directed at the attorney. Since attending that seminar, I have accompanied my seniors to many appearances and have recently been allowed to fly solo. What I have seen in the courtroom and in dealings with fellow attorneys is nothing short of appalling: The approach is first summarized as a series of calculation steps, and then explained as a word problem, with an explanation for each stage of the analysis. 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. An extremely short per curiam opinion. A custody change from mother to father under Murphy standard upheld where district court indicated that the father was fit, and it could be implied that the mother was not fit, and that the best interests of the child would be served by placing her in her father’s care.   But when all relevant persons have left, and the non-custodial parent returns here, there is no such effect. Or, as NCCUSL put it: "Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction is not reestablished if, after the child, the parents, and all persons acting as parents leave the State, the non-custodial parent returns." So if all parties leave, and the non-custodial parent later returns, the child’s new Home State (or if there is none, a significant-connection State) assumes jurisdiction to make custody orders. A complaint sought declaration of interest in property a couple had acquired over 23 year co-habitation stated cause of action for breach of an implied-in-fact contract to acquire and hold property as if married or general partners. The district court granted summary judgment under Rule 12(b).  The Supreme Court reversed. The Court held that unmarried individuals who are It is also necessary to stress that the question of jurisdiction is a "snapshot" taken at the moment of filing the action. In the language of the comments, "jurisdiction attaches at the commencement of a proceeding." The way NCCUSL put it: "If State A had jurisdiction under this section at the time a modification proceeding was commenced there, it would not be lost by all parties moving out of the State prior to the conclusion of the proceeding. State B would not have jurisdiction to hear a modification unless State A decided that State B was more appropriate under Section 207."2 Whether or not another action has been filed elsewhere makes a difference. In a strictly default divorce situation when no other action is pending elsewhere, a Nevada court with jurisdiction over only one party can dissolve the marriage, but not adjudicate any rights as to alimony, child support, or child custody without obtaining personal jurisdiction over both parties.13 Technically, since the trial court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate any issues other than status, those issues are thus "bifurcated," but no known case has denied a plaintiff a divorce on that basis. The mother was initially awarded custody. The father was ordered to pay $200 per month in support and paid on time. The mother later voluntarily relinquished custody to the father. The father then filed a motion to formalize the de facto change of custody.  The Supreme Court implicitly approved of district court’s decision recognizing a de facto change in custody. The court found the contingency fee agreement violated prior SCR 155 (current RPC 1.5), which prohibits such fees in "a domestic relations matter, the payment or amount of which is contingent upon the securing of the divorce or upon alimony, child support, or property settlement in lieu thereof." The opinion incorrectly states the new RPC is identical to the prior rule; it is not, but it has the same substantive prohibition. 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 (as is typical).1 We are increasingly troubled by the trend of parties to leave divorce court with an agreement that settles property and alimony matters, only to immediately walk down the street to the federal courthouse and attempt to relitigate those issues. Such actions call into question the good faith of the parties and their counsel and raise thorny issues of comity and finality of judgments, to say nothing of attempting to make the bankruptcy court into some type of appellate divorce court. We do not think Congress intended this result when it enacted § 523(a)(5). While we recognize that certain marital debts and obligations are and should be dischargeable, we do not believe that § 523(a)(5) gives one spouse carte blanche to retain marital property at the other spouse’s expense. Notably, Congress itself appears to have adopted the reasoning of this theory in the amendments to the USFSPA that went into effect in 1997 (for both CSRS and FERS retirements, but only as to waivers made on or after January 1, 1997). Under those rules, if a military member waives military retired pay in order to take a Civil Service retirement, the former spouse must be paid what she would have received from the military in order for the waiver to be accepted by the Office of Personnel Management.2 The parties divorced in 1985. The former husband never paid money judgment or alimony to former wife as ordered. The former husband’s mother set up trust, worth two million dollars, bought and allowed the former husband to live in a condominium, bought the former husband a car, etc. The district court ordered the former husband imprisoned and allowed former wife to execute against condominium and car.  Notably, the federal law provides that such a stay request does notconstitute the making of a general appearance and does not waive or relinquish anydefenses otherwise available, whether substantive or procedural.1 Retirement benefits are essentially a form of deferred reward for service, and so are generally divisible upon divorce, while disability benefits are conceptualized as compensation for future lost wages and opportunities because of disabilities suffered, and are thus typically not divisible or attachable. When accepting a disability award requires relinquishing a retirement benefit, the interests of the parties as to the proper characterization of the benefits become instantly polarized.1 Subject matter jurisdiction. Jurisdiction over the nature of the case and the type of relief sought; the extent to which a court can rule on the conduct of persons or the status of things. - Also termed jurisdiction of the subject matter.1

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