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SUP> The holdings are nearly identical, using nearly identical language, whether or not the court is in a community property state.14 Decrees containing any variation of a "final award," or a "vested right" to a portion of property, or perhaps even "sole and separate property," are taken in the modern cases as setting up a vested right by the former spouse to a continuing flow of a given level of benefits that cannot be reduced by any action of the retiree, including the retiree’s post-divorce waiver of the benefits in seeking VA disability benefits. Escalation agreements using the CPI usually involve changing the base payment by the percent change in the level of the CPI between the reference period and a subsequent time period. This is calculated by first determining the index point change between the two periods and then the percent change. The following example illustrates the computation of percent change: First, there could be no SBP award to the former spouse. The lifetime benefit stream will be divided as the court indicates, but the parties will be left in an unequal position as to risk, because if the member dies, the former spouse gets nothing, but if the former spouse dies, the member gets his share of the benefits, plus hers. SUP> The holdings are nearly identical, using nearly identical language, whether or not the court is in a community property state.14 Decrees containing any variation of a "final award," or a "vested right" to a portion of property, or perhaps even "sole and separate property," are taken in the modern cases as setting up a vested right by the former spouse to a continuing flow of a given level of benefits that cannot be reduced by any action of the retiree, including the retiree’s post-divorce waiver of the benefits in seeking VA disability benefits. But that is a short-sighted and ultimately self-destructive position for the organized Bar to accept. Ever-decreasing public confidence in professional ethics generally, and lawyer-client confidentiality and competence particularly, cannot help but have a downward pressure on the value that the members of the public place on legal services. Third and finally, some states view shared custody as a deviational factor only. The court will not apply any special formula, but will figure the presumptive amount based on sole custody, and then deviate from that amount. These states make no assumption that increased time with a child translates into increased costs for the noncustodial parent and decreased costs for custodial parent. Rather, each case must be examined on its facts. The Supreme Court affirmed. In addition to concluding that attorney’s fees could be awarded to pro bono counsel, the Court held that attorney’s fees could be awarded in paternity cases. The Court noted that the district court awarded attorney fees under Sargeant. The Court held that Sargeant did not apply in paternity cases and that its application was limited to divorce proceedings. The Court held that NRS 126.171 authorized the fee award. The statute provided that "[in paternity actions], the court may order reasonable fees of counsel . . . to be paid by the parties in proportions and at times determined by the court." The Court concluded under the statute’s plain meaning, fees may be awarded. The Court found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding fees, the mother had good counsel, the work was difficult, the result was favorable, and there was a disparity in income. 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 typicallynot 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 This would indicate that if any time period could be considered a "temporary absence" not creating a change in home state, it would be the children¡¯s presence in Nevada from January, 2003, to June, 2004, not any period that the children were in Japan. And that would make Japan the children¡¯s home state, from at least the time the entire family lived together there starting in May, 2002. Practitioners must resist the urge to phrase an award as a sum of dollars plus a future percentage of increases. The military pay center will refuse to enforce the COLA provisions of awards phrased in that way, requiring the former spouse to return to court upon the granting of each subsequent COLA in order to get the dollar sum adjusted to reflect the new amount payable (or adjust the award to a percentage). The Supreme Court affirmed. The Court noted that the Schwartz factors were applicable even for a temporary relocation. In considering such a request, a district court should first determine whether the custodial parent wishing to leave Nevada demonstrated good faith reasons for relocating citing to Hayes v. Gallacher, 115 Nev. 1, 972 P.2d 1138 (1999). The Court further noted that once the custodial parent makes the threshold good faith showing, the district court should then apply the factors outlined in Schwartz to determine whether the custodial parent has demonstrated that an actual advantage will be realized by both the parent and the child by moving to the new location. Once the custodial parent has met that burden, the district court must go through the Schwartz factors. The Court rejected the suggestion that the mere demonstration of reasonable alternative visitation ends the inquiry under Schwartz. The Court noted that the child’s and the mother’s quality of life would remain essentially the same. The child’s lifestyle would not be enhanced by the move. The Court held that the district court did not err in applying the Schwartz factors to the case and did not abuse its discretion in denying the mother’s relocation motion. The Court found that the district court conducted a three day evidentiary hearing, analyzed the facts throughly, correctly applied the Schwartz factors and determined that relocation would not be in the child’s best interest. The primary purpose of the USFSPA was to define State court jurisdiction to consider and use military retired pay in fixing the property and support rights of the parties to a divorce, dissolution, annulment, or legal separation.4 By fits and starts, every State in the Union has permitted military retirement benefits to be divided as property, at least in certain circumstances. SPAN> Carr-Bricken v. First Interstate Bank, 105 Nev. 402, 915 P.2d 254 (1996) While the divorce proceedings were pending, the husband died and was replaced as defendant by respondent First Interstate Bank of Nevada as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jules Bricken. The district court denied the wife’s request for temporary support. The Court held that orders for support pendente lite may be granted in the discretion of the district court citing to NRS 125.040(1). 2. A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state if: The Supreme Court affirmed and held that the agreement is unenforceable because the husband did not fully disclose his assets and obligations before the wife signed it. The Court noted that both parties agreed that the husband attached his inventory of assets and that the wife initialed that schedule long after the couple married. The Court further noted that the husband’s late disclosure contravened both the clear language of NRS 123A.080(1)(c) and the spirit of Buettner v. Buettner, 89 Nev. 39, 505 P.2d 600 (1973) and Sogg v. Nevada State Bank, 108 Nev. 308, 832 P.2d 781 (1992). The Court additionally held that the wife’s initialing of the husband’s asset schedule did not satisfy the disclosure requirement because full disclosure must occur before contract execution. B) if, n the case of a member or former member not in receipt of retired pay immediately before that termination of eligibility fo r retired pay, the member or former member had retired on the effective date of that termination of eligibility. Shelton v. Shelton, 119 Nev. ___, 78 P.3d 507 (Adv. Opn. No. 55, Oct. 29, 2003), cert. denied, 124 S. Ct. 1716 (2004), involved a stipulated decree calling for the former spouse to receive a certain sum of money out of the military retirement benefits each month. After divorce, the member applied for and received disability benefits, which requires a dollar-for-dollar waiver in retired pay. This had the effect of increasing the sums paid to him (he got the disability pay plus his portion of the reduced retired pay) while decreasing the sums paid to the former spouse. The Nevada Supreme Court followed a "contracts" approach that has been applied in Virginia and Louisiana, in deciding that a military retiree "cannot escape his contractual obligation by voluntarily choosing to forfeit his retirement pay," and that the former spouse was therefore entitled to continue receiving what she would have received but for the waiver of retirement for disability pay. The Court stated its intent to interpret the parties’ ambiguous and contradictory settlement so as to yield "a fair and reasonable result, as opposed to a harsh and unfair result," noting that the husband appeared to have ample other assets than his military retired pay with which to satisfy his payment obligation, and that even if he did not, federal law was no bar to enforcement of his agreement to use his disability payments to satisfy his obligation. 2) Significant connection. A court could assume jurisdiction when the child and at least one party had a "significant connection" with the forum state and there was substantial evidence in the state concerning the child’s present or future care. 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