Divorce and the Military
The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) authorizes courts to award up to 50 percent of a uniformed service member's retired pay to an ex-spouse for life, and does not preclude the award of other support from retired pay. Whether single, divorced, or contemplating divorce, the service member, spouse, and attorneys need to know the 20 factors that affect military divorces and how the divorce process and retired pay are influenced by the USFSPA.
If you are an attorney, this book will provide information you need to better represent or advise clients in this specialized area of family law. The book includes a new full disclosure chapter on military benefits that you can use in discovery. This expanded version also contains a new chapter on how the USFSPA and disability pay have been interpreted in the 50 states. A new chapter identifies financial planning considerations that both the service member and spouse must evaluate in a military divorce. Learn about the 12 controversies cited in divorce case appeals, which have created problems through as many interpretations as there are courts. The USFSPA applies to all active duty, reserve/guard, and retired military, U.S. Coast Guard, and members of the USPHS and the NOAA.