A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the nonpreemption of State law in cases relating to the division of retired or retainer pay between members or former members of the Armed Forces and their spouses, and to provide an appropriate means of enforcing decrees and orders of State courts providing for the division of such law.

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Provides that State law concerning the division of a military pension of a member or former member of the armed forces upon divorce or legal separation shall not be preempted. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay from the military pension of a member or former member of the armed forces to a spouse or former spouse the amount specified in a State court's decree of dissolution of marriage or of legal separation. Prohibits such payment whenever the Secretary receives certified, conflicting decrees. Requires the Secretary to notify the affected member or former member whenever a portion of a military pension has been so awarded.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 26 October 1981

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