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The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (or USFSPA) is a U.S. federal law enacted on September 8, 1982 to address issues that arise when a member of the military divorces, and primarily concerns jointly-earned marital property consisting of benefits earned during marriage and while one of the spouses (or both) is a military service member. [3]
You can receive up to 100% of your deceased spouse’s benefit amount. Timing: You can claim survivor benefits as early as age 60, while retirement benefits can typically be claimed as early as ...
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If your spouse was born before Jan. 2, 1954 and has already reached full retirement age, your spouse can receive the spousal benefit and delay receiving their own retirement benefit until later.
Military divorce is a specific type of divorce that arises when one or both partners are members of the military. Although typically an uncontested divorce, military divorces are different because they require additional requirements to be fulfilled. Divorces occur less frequently than within the civilian population. [1]
Howell v. Howell, 581 U.S. ___ (2017), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that a state court may not order a veteran to indemnify a divorced spouse for the loss in the divorced spouse's portion of the veteran's retirement pay caused by the veteran's waiver of retirement pay to receive service-related disability benefits.
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This was further modified by the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017, (dubbed the "Forever GI Bill"), that eliminated the 15-year time limit on using Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits. The Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 reformed the appeals process for veterans' benefits claims, aiming to reduce the ...