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Military Pensions and The Former Spouses Protection Act

Steve recently won an interesting “omitted property” case involving a divorce from 1984.  The parties divorced while the husband was in the military just after Congress passed The Former Spouses Protection Act (FSPA) (10 U.S.C. § 1408).  The FSPA provided for the division of military pensions in divorce, it took a few years for the full impact to get out to the wider legal community.   As the client’s divorce was just after the passage of the FSPA, the military pension was not included in the divorce.  Decades passed and the client approached us about obtaining her share of her former spouse’s military pension.  We filed under Maine’s omitted property statute (19-A M.R.S.A. § 953) which states that:

  1. “if a final divorce decree fails to set apart or divide marital property over which the courts had jurisdiction the immediate property is deemed held by both parties as tenants-in-common on the notion of either party, the court may set aside or divide the omitted property between the parties as justice may require.”

After a fight, the other side conceded, and our client is now receiving her just share of the pension.

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