MILITARY DIVORCE AND RETIREMENT SPLIT ENFORCED EVEN WITH DISABILITY ELECTION

WIFE GETS RETIREMENT EVEN IF SEVERED WITH DISABILITY ELECTION



FLINT DIVORCE ATTORNEY TERRY BANKERT PRESENTS SEVERAL ISSUES CONCERNING MILITARY DIVORCE.



Presented here is an opinion of first impression of Michigan Court of Appeals concerning the issues surrounding whether a military spouse remains financially responsible to compensate his or her former spouse in an amount equal to the share of retirement pay ordered to be distributed to the former spouse as part of a divorce judgment's property division where the military spouse makes a unilateral and voluntary postjudgment election to waive the retirement pay in favor of disability benefits contrary to the terms of the divorce judgment; Combat-related special compensation (CRSC)(10 USC § 1413a);



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