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The Military Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide to Representing Military Personnel and Their Families |
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Now in its second printing!
Includes CD-ROM with Forms and Additional Materials |
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This is a timely and much-needed addition to a family lawyer's library. Both comprehensive and practical, The Military Divorce Handbook covers all aspects of representing servicemembers and their spouses in divorce.
Military personnel are involved in the same domestic situations as civilians' divorce, separation, custody, support, and division of property. Yet when a divorce action involves a military client, there are special issues that arise which make these cases more difficult. The Military Divorce Handbook guides you through the complexities of all aspects of representing military personnel or their spouses to help you provide competent and thorough representation for your client. Key chapters explain the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), military tax issues, and the important issue of dividing military retirement benefits. Also, covered are the difficult and increasingly important issues of custody and domestic violence involving servicemembers.
Explaining complex issues in clear, current and concise language, The Military Divorce Handbook also features numerous Practice Tips throughout the text. The handbook includes a glossary, table of cases, and comprehensive index, as well as a CD-ROM with forms and additional background material.
Handling divorce and family law cases involving servicemembers has never been timelier. As a result of the large number of recent National Guard and Reserve mobilizations, these complex issues will affect nearly all family lawyers, not just those whose practices are located near major military bases. Furthermore, due to the Pentagon overseas basing plans, more and more of these servicemembers will be stationed back in the United States in the future. The knowledge contained in this handbook is essential for family law practitioners in order to provide professional representation for the servicemember or spouse as a client. Listen to Mark Sullivan discuss Military Divorce (10:35).
Listen to other author interviews.
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"[Mark Sullivan] is well recognized nationally as an expert on the use of computers, trial advocacy and negotiating techniques, dividing military retirement, and obtaining military health and educational records, all of which he brings in abundance to this Handbook....Sullivan's years of teaching, lecturing, and chairing Bar subsections and panels bolster his articulate conveyance of the intricacies of that law which he also practices at the grassroots, and many of his scenarios are a wise and seasoned aggregate of all those experiences. This is a fine "handbook" in the classic sense, with both comprehensive and practical application."
Alice A. Booher
From the review in The Military Advocate
"This book is really worth its weight in gold since it is invaluable in handling military divorce matters. Recently I represented a Major in the Army and used the book for such areas as: jurisdiction, establishing state of residency and perhaps most important, his pension. The footnotes that cited to code sections etc., were invaluable in settling the case during mediation. I was able to show the other attorney and the mediator the relative portions of the book and it aided in the resolution of a highly charged case."
Lawrence S. Katz, Esq.
Miami, FL
"This book (and the checklists, law summaries, articles, model forms, and pleadings contained in the CD accompanying the book) draws together - by category - every aspect of family law: the Civil Relief Acts which impact ability to move a case forward; the Former Spouses Act, permitting apportionment of military retired pay; and the Survivor Benefit Plan Act, permitting continuing flow of benefits after the member's death. It differentiates how federal and state law, regulation and policy impact on active, versus Reserve, versus National Guard members and their spouses. Citations are voluminous, illustrating the broad range of state/territorial approaches to these issues. Ask yourself -- what jurisdiction refuses to apportion military retired pay at all? Which requires a minimum overlapping period of marriage and service before permitting apportionment? What are the options and requirements under the Civil Relief Act? If you don't know the answers, buy the book!"
Michael W. McCarthy, Esq.
Retired reserve United States Air Force Brigadier General
From the review in the Arizona Family Law News, September 2007
"I just spent about an hour going through Mark Sullivan's book. What a great help for the civilian lawyer trying to wade through the mind field of military divorce. I had a question about tricare and found the answer in your book. Thanks for the many hours of hard work the author put in to provide the family bar with such a useful resource."
Ken H. Lester, Esq.
Columbia, SC
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