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In the decree, the father was required to pay support of $300 per child or a total of $900 per month. The mother requested increased support and the father requested increased visitation. The district court, among other things, abated the father’s support obligation during his one month summer visitation. The mother contended this order was outside of the court’s jurisdiction. While this point is important in cases involving joint physical custody, it is equally important in other cases as well. If the Supreme Court adopts the definitions of other forms of custody, as asked for by the FLS in its original Brief and reasserted below, this issue becomes all the more important, as some of the requested terminology is based upon law from other jurisdictions. 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 There are similarly large disparities in how the cost of survivorship benefits is paid. Some retirement plans, like the Civil Service system, allow one party or the other, or both parties together, to bear the cost of the survivorship benefits, so long as they are paid by way of reduction in the monthly retirement payments. Other plans, like those governed by ERISA, give no real choice in the matter; if the benefits are not waived by the spouse, then the sum payable during life is actuarially adjusted to compensate for the cost of the survivorship interest. This third matter was directly reported to the State Bar by me, to avoid any possibility that this office could be implicated in the ongoing sleaze. That was about six months ago; near as I can tell, there was not even an investigation; certainly, we were never contacted for any information on the matter. For example, in In re Marriage of McGhee,1 the court approved compensation to the former spouse by means of alimony, as set out in the agreement between the parties, when it was imposed by the dissolution court after the member halted the flow of military retirement benefits to former spouse after the McCarty decision. The court termed use of such "back-up" clauses to be making the property award "supportified." Similarly, in deciding In re Marriage of Sheldon,2 the court noted the "close relationship between the amount of a property division and the entitlement, if any, of a spouse to spousal support." In In re Marriage of Mastropaolo,3 the court "conditionally" reversed an alimony award "on condition" that the court’s affirmance of the retirement division became final. 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 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 father’s driver’s 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 driver’s license was unjustified and counterproductive. P> 11 Of course, Nevada principles of family law will govern all cases, regardless of the origins of any concept or definition borrowed from the statutory or case law of a sister jurisdiction. It might save some litigation, and perhaps prevent another appeal, for this Court to specify that Nevada statutory and case law is controlling, and the law of States from which terms are borrowed are persuasive authority only. In the decree, the father was required to pay support of $300 per child or a total of $900 per month. The mother requested increased support and the father requested increased visitation. The district court, among other things, abated the father’s support obligation during his one month summer visitation. The mother contended this order was outside of the court’s jurisdiction. 65279;If a person happens to be a recipient of both DIC payments and payments under the Survivor's Benefit Plan ("SBP") explained below, all DIC payments are subtracted from the SBP payments. However, certain supplements to the DIC benefits, for support of a dependent child or because of certain disabilities, do not get offset against SBP. DIC payments are not taxed, and are therefore more valuable than the (taxable) SBP payments that would otherwise go the survivor. If this hypothetical member had a standard longevity military retirement (or any other standard defined benefit plan) the above wage history would make his average monthly salary during his last three years' service $4,014.21, and the military retirement formula" would make his retired pay $2,007.11. Some courts are loathe to engage in any of the speculation set out above, and so tend to just enter "wait and see" orders, reserving jurisdiction to enter an order regarding the retirement benefits until the member is eligible for retirement (or actually retires). Such a non-resolution avoids all of these difficulties, but has its own down-side, in terms of making it certain that there will be later legal expenses, jurisdictional complications if one or both parties relocate, and the emotional cost of not achieving closure on an issue of primary importance. Peters v. Peters, 92 Nev. 687, 557 P.2d 713 (1976) The husband purchased a life insurance policy and named the wife as beneficiary. The premiums were paid out of community funds. In March 1973, the husband filed for divorce. In August 1973, the husband died. The son filed a probate proceeding to determine the status of certain real and personal property seeking to have the property declared to be community property and subject to administration. The district court held that the policy was community property and that one-half of the proceeds should be distributed to the wife and the remaining one-half to become an asset of the estate. Well over $100,000 of principal arrearages in child support accrued from 2000 to 2008, and the custodial parent sought to reduce to judgment the principal, interest, and penalties accrued during that time.2 Mr. Vaile’s counsel contacted the Attorney General’s office and solicited a "Friend of the Court" brief to buttress his contest of the massive arrears accrued during that time. For reasons commented upon below, the Attorney General’s Office agreed. 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. In Kentucky, the legislature decided in 2006 that any custodial change premised on member’s deployment or activation is only a temporary order which "reverts" to the prior order upon return of the member; the Kentucky Supreme Court apparently approves of the statute.1 Louisiana has enacted a "compensatory visitation" statute.2 California prohibits use of military activation and deployment out of State from being used against a member in a custody or visitation case.3 The decision in that case relied on the earlier decision of In re Marriage of Daniels,2 which 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 trusteeof her funds, and must pay them over to her. The language quoted was the principle espoused earlier by the California Supreme Court in Gillmore3 - that one party should not be allowed to defeat the other’s interest in retirement benefits "by invoking a condition wholly within his or her control." UP> PERS is mainly a "non-contributory" system. Certain workers have paid in to "member’s contribution" accounts from the days when PERS had employee as well as employer-paid funding. That amount is refundable in certain circumstances, and may be applied to the (divisible) retirement in others. The attorney for a spouse seeking a portion of a TSP account should specify that the award is to be paid along with interest and earnings on that award. If such language is in the order, the spouse will receive the same accumulations attributable to the spousal share that the participant receives as to the account; if such language is not included in the order, the spouse will receive no accumulations, interest, or earnings on the defined share through the date of distribution. A court order may also specify an interest rate to be applied to a distribution from a given date. At the least, NRS 125.155 as a whole directly conflicts with NRS 123.225 and NRS 123.330, since it provides to spouses of participants in the Nevada PERS system lesser protection of, and less control over, their community property rights than spouses of all participants in all other private and public retirement systems on which a divorce court might rule. This would appear to violate the "general and uniform operation" requirement of Article 4, section 21, of the Nevada Constitution. 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. Sprenger v. Sprenger, 110 Nev. 855, 878 P.2d 284 (1994), as factors for the district court to consider in its determination with the weight being given to each of the factors being left to the discretion of the district court. The Court looked at the factors. The Court noted that the wife had not worked in the design field for 13 years of the marriage, and at the time of the divorce she was working as a secretary. The Court further noted that the wife had been a homemaker and primary caretaker for the parties’ three children during their marriage and that she assisted the husband in obtaining an advanced decree and establishing a career. The Court believed it very unlikely that in five years, the wife would be to earn an income that will enable her to either maintain the lifestyle she enjoyed during the marriage. The Court concluded that in considering the relevant factors for determining an appropriate spousal support award outlined in Sprenger, that the district court’s award was "just and equitable," having regard to the conditions in which the parties will be left by the divorce was an abuse of discretion. 65279;Where a post-military Civil Service career seems likely, allocation of the retirement benefits from that service should probably be explicitly set out in the original divorce decree. Where (as in most cases) it is only one possibility among many, the standard form clauses (allowing for issuance of a further order tracing the military retired pay and entry of a further order) are probably adequate. The military service secretaries are permitted, but not required, to designate "critical specialties." Members within those specialties serving on active duty for a minimum of six years would receive contributions by the government, matching some of the sums contributed from basic pay.1 At the time of their marriage, the parties each owned real property. During the marriage, the parties lived in the wife’s home. Mortgage payments were made on that property throughout the marriage. The primary source of these payments was apparently the proceeds from a craft business operated by the wife. The business had been purchased after the marriage with joint funds. The husband letter began constructing a residence on his separate property lot, performing most of the work himself. The funds came from money withdrawn from a community savings account and the sale of his prior separate property residence. The district court made a finding that both parties’ separate property had been improved with community assets. The court found the community interest in the lot on which the husband’s residence was built included the value of the husband’s labor, and the value of the building materials used. No community property interest was found in the wife’s residence. The district court also found that the craft business had been transmuted from community property to separate property by the division of the bank accounts. Specific factual findings are crucial to enforce or modify a custody order and for appellate review. Accordingly, on remand, the district court must evaluate the true nature of the custodial arrangement, pursuant to the definition of joint physical custody described above, by evaluating the arrangement the parties are exercising in practice, regardless of any contrary language in the divorce decree. The district court shall then apply the appropriate test for determining whether to modify the custody arrangement and make express findings supporting its determination. Specifically, the Alaska joint-custody formula is triggered when the percentage of time (usually, but not always, to be defined as overnights of 110 or more) reaches 30% of custodial time. Trial courts are then to examine the details of the visitation schedule, and the financial disclosures, to determine whether expenses relating to the child divide in the same manner as the time spent with the child are divided. If so, normal guideline support is expanded by 50% to account for "redundant payments" in the two households, before application of Alaska’s deviation factors. The parties had married in 1978, just when the lawyer-husband started a law practice. In December 1992, the husband drafted a property settlement agreement providing that he received the law practice as his separate property, and including the wife’s waiver of any interest in his firm’s income for 1990-1992. Both the husband and his attorney signed the agreement. Later, in December 1992, the husband filed for divorce, and the wife signed a proper person answer. The decree was granted the same day. 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. share based the "high three" years at the ten year point, which was $2,464.38. The formula would produce a hypothetical retirement of $616.10. Wife one would receive half of that sum ¨C $308.05, but not until after the member¡¯s actual retirement, ten years later. 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. That presumed direct contribution by a non-custodian is part of the total support expected by the child support formula to be expended on a child. Thus, if the non-custodial parent’s direct contribution to child expenses exceeds or falls short of that presumed in NRS 125B.070 as a result of the amount of time the non-custodial parent spends with the child, the court has discretion to deviate downwards or upwards from the child support calculated under that statute, as provided in NRS 125B.080(9)(j). This process of calculating support pursuant to a formula with inherent presumptions, while allowing for deviations based on the particular circumstances of each case, furthers the original goals of fostering adequacy, consistency and predictability. 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 If a future in-kind distribution of the retirement benefits is made, the same level of attention to detail should be given as if the distribution was immediate. Failure to do so enhances the chances of further litigation upon the member’s eligibility. The simple failure of attorneys to think about deferred retirement issues at the time of divorce is the principal cause of post-divorce pension litigation. A very short opinion. The court granted divorce and made certain dispositions with regard to their property. The wife contended that the record did not support determination by the court below that the parties’ home and a 2 ½ acre parcel of unimproved real property were community property as it was undisputed that title to each property was held in joint tenancy. B> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that this decree does not provide any capacity for the Member to designate a subsequent spouse as beneficiary of a portion of the survivorship interest in the Plan up to all survivorship interests less those awarded to the Alternate Payee. The court intends to permit the Member to make such an allocation of remaining survivorship, but is unable to exercise that intent due to the limitations of the current law. The court expressly reserves jurisdiction to enter such future orders as may be necessary to carry this intention into effect, by modification of this Decree as required to do so, should the law allow.

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