Family Law
Family Law News Issue 2, 2014, Volume 36, No. 2
Content
- Budget Meeting At the State Capitol How the Budget Cuts are Impacting Litigants' Access to Justice
- Case Highlights: the Year in Review
- Early Mediation of Family Law Cases the Adversarial System is Ill-suited to Process Marital Breakups
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- In this Issue:
- Masthead
- MCLE Self-study Article: Technology in the Law Office the Battleground of Efficiency versus Ethics
- Message from the Chair
- Message from the Editor:
- R. Ann FallOn: Interview with Matt Taddei, Life Insurance Expert the Burwell Burden — new criteria for valuing term life insurance
- Standing Chairs and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- Fact or "Whacked"? Myths and Mistakes in Military Divorces
Fact or "Whacked"? Myths and Mistakes in Military Divorces
Mark E. Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan is a retired Army Reserve JAG colonel. He practices family law in Raleigh, North Carolina and is the author of THE MILITARY DIVORCE HANDBOOK (Am. Bar Assn., 2nd Ed. 2011) and many internet resources on military family law issues. A Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Mr. Sullivan has been a board-certified specialist in family law since 1989.
Introduction
In too many military divorces, a client or lawyer makes a costly mistake. Often it’s because the client is unaware of the options or the law, someone relies on rumors and myths, "barracks lawyers" and buddies provide well-meaning but erroneous information, the attorney is unaware of the rules for military retirement and its division; or the rules themselves are too complex, illogical and confusing. This article is intended to help lawyers and their clients to sort out truth from "urban legends," the fact from the "whacked."