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Would you live in a place where you can: Be taken from your family? Be forced out of your own home? Have half of your hard- earned money taken away, including half of your pension? Be ordered to pay outrageous and crushing monetary penalties to another person? Be forced into retirement? Have all of this happen to you even though you were not guilty of any wrongdoing? Well, if you live in the state of Maryland, then you live in such a place.
I know. This happened to me, and it can happen to you as well. The reason you are at risk is because of Maryland's no-fault divorce law and the Marital Property Act. Under the former law, either spouse can divorce the other at any time and for any reason. Under the Marital Property Act, your marital property will be divided "equally," regardless of w...
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... court awarded each one-half of their marital estate. Among other things, the decree awarded Far... Farrey a lien against Sanderfoot's real property. Sanderfoot did not pay Farrey, and subsequently f...
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... respect to child support, alimony, or marital property, the amount of any actual or estimated be...
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Whether a payment made by a taxpayer to a former spouse under a divorce or separation instrument constitutes deductible alimony by the payer is often controversial. To be deductible as alimony by the payer, the payment must satisfy the requirements of IRC section 71. A recent Tax Court decision involving the payment of military retirement benefits under the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) to the former spouse of a retired serviceman sheds light on the treatment of alimony payments. The USFSPA gives state courts the authority to treat military retirement pay as marital property and to divide it, pursuant to a divorce or separation instrument, between the retired service member and former spouse. The payment of retirement benefits under a divorce or separation i...
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COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS
Criminal Law
... provided for restitution "[a]s to property damaged." Thus, it was held that the General Assem...Family Law. Marital property classification. BOTTOM LINE: Because the ...
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A husband's post-retirement military health insurance benefits could be valued in dividing marital property in his divorce, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled.
The husband filed for divorce after retiring from the military. The trial judge classified his post-retirement military health insurance benefits as a marital asset, valued the benefits at $125,959, and allocated the asset to him in its division of marital property.
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Introduction - I. Classification - A. Classification of Property as Community or Separate - B. Example of Virtual Property: Blogs - C. Classification of Blogs - II. Management - A. Management of Community Property - B. Example of Virtual Property: Twitter Accounts - C. Management of Twitter Accounts - III. Termination - A. Termination of the Community - B. Example of Virtual Property: Facebook Profiles - C. Termination and Facebook Profiles - Conclusion