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Estoppel equitableOn appeal, the husband sought to have court find the parties remained married so that wife’s property transferred to him. The Court held that the district court could modify property or alimony terms without vacating the divorce itself, under the concept of divisible divorce, without violating NRS 125.130. The majority opinion reversed the property provisions of the default decree but left the divorce itself in place. The Court held this result was compatible with Gojack v. Second Judicial Dist. Court, 95 Nev. 443, 596 P.2d 237 (1979). The Court appeared to base much of its result in equity by stating: "... Wayne now desires to posthumously confer the status of a deceased wife upon Kathleen in order to retain her share of the community property. To permit him to do so would engage the judicial process in an affront to equity. This we refuse to do." Id. at 976-77. The Court also noted that "equity considers as done that which ought to be done." Id. at 978. There was a partial dissent by Justices Young and Rose, who would have held that setting aside a default decree of divorce would have left the parties married, along with providing a variety of quotable dicta on the ppressiveness of attorney’s fees. On appeal, the husband sought to have court find the parties remained married so that wife’s property transferred to him. The Court held that the district court could modify property or alimony terms without vacating the divorce itself, under the concept of divisible divorce, without violating NRS 125.130. The majority opinion reversed the property provisions of the default decree but left the divorce itself in place. The Court held this result was compatible with Gojack v. Second Judicial Dist. Court, 95 Nev. 443, 596 P.2d 237 (1979). The Court appeared to base much of its result in equity by stating: "... Wayne now desires to posthumously confer the status of a deceased wife upon Kathleen in order to retain her share of the community property. To permit him to do so would engage the judicial process in an affront to equity. This we refuse to do." Id. at 976-77. The Court also noted that "equity considers as done that which ought to be done." Id. at 978. There was a partial dissent by Justices Young and Rose, who would have held that setting aside a default decree of divorce would have left the parties married, along with providing a variety of quotable dicta on the ppressiveness of attorney’s fees. One California court, surveying cases from around the country, held in 1999 that Mansell does not apply to post-judgment waivers of retirement pay at all, because Mansell held only that disability benefits could not be divided "upon divorce."13 This is the classic divorce scenario - whether divorce occurs before or after retirement, it is usually expected that both parties will continue to live until after the member retires from active duty. comity and prevention of multiple and vexatious litigation will most often militate in favor of dismissal of the later-filed action, unless there is some clear superiority of that action being the one that proceeds.1 between the parents in proportion to their respective adjusted gross incomes. Each parent's share of the adjusted basic child support obligation shall then be multiplied by the percentage of time the children spend with the other parent to determine the theoretical basic child support obligation owed to the other parent. To these amounts shall be added each parent's proportionate share of work-related net child care costs, extraordinary medical expenses, and extraordinary adjustments to the schedule of basic child support obligations. The parent owing the greater amount of child support shall owe the difference between the two amounts as a child support order minus any ordered direct payments made on behalf of the children for work-related net child care costs, extraordinary medical expenses, or extraordinary adjustments to the schedule of basic child support obligations. In no case, however, shall the amount of child support ordered to be paid exceed the amount of child support that would otherwise be ordered to be paid if the parents did not share physical custody. b) If there is not a court order awarding parenting time, the court shall determine the child support award without consideration of the parenting expense adjustment. If a parenting tirne order is subsequently issued or is issued in the same proceeding, then the child support order shall include application of the parenting expense adjustment. Subd. 2. Calculation of parenting expense adjustment. The obligor is entitled to a parenting expense adjustment calculated as provided in this subdivision. The court shall: (1) find the adjustment percentage corresponding to the percentage of parenting time allowed to the obligor below: 65279;Jones is also in the group of cases explaining that Mansell calls on courts to essentially take a snapshot at the time of divorce, when the award to the spouse is made. Any disposable retired pay that was already waived in favor of disability pay up to that point is not divisible, but any attempt by the member at post-divorce reduction in retired pay by recharacterization is seen as attempting a "de facto modification" of a final property award, which community property law does not permit. SUP> But it also seems clear that a reviewing court can choose to ignore evidence of abuse as the reason for the passage of sufficient time in the foreign country to find a "settled purpose," as the dissent in Silverman II complained that it was only the father’s abuse that caused the mother and children to remain in Israel beyond the month of their arrival. The Court stated that adequate cause required something more than allegations which, if proven, might permit inferences sufficient to establish grounds for a custody change citing to Roorda v. Roorda, 25 Wash. App. 849, 611 P.2d 794, 796 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980). "´Adequate cause’ arises where the moving party presents a prima facie case for modification. To constitute a prima facie case it must be shown that: (1) the facts alleged in the affidavits are relevant to the grounds for modification; and (2) the evidence is not merely cumulative or impeaching. Roorda, 611 P.2d at 796. 4." Id. at 543. Withdrawal of TSP funds by a participant is normally limited to those separating from service, but in-service withdrawals may be made in two categories: "age-based" withdrawals1 and special "financial hardship" withdrawals. Notably, one of the four categories for such financial hardship withdrawals is "legal expenses for separation or divorce."2 Counter-intuitively, however, if a member is married, the spouse must normally consent to an in-service withdrawal, whether or not the parties are separated.3 West Virginia X is why the legislative history for that date says only that "he is awaiting a facsimile from a family law practitioner about a concern with the bill," but when it did not arrive in time, had the Committee vote to pass the legislation. Similar, but different, specialized enforcement orders are required to address retirement benefits for a Nevada state public employee, under the Public Employees Retirement System ("PERS"). Those who put the Nevada PERS regulations together, however, chose to (confusingly) use the same titles, etc., as are in the federal ERISA law. However, a state pension plan (such as PERS) does not fall within ERISA, and the federal statutes do not apply to the plan, or to the benefits. Instead, there is an entirely different set of (state) laws that govern distribution of PERS benefits, which has its own checklist of necessary terms to include and exclude, and for which we have assembled a model clause set, detailed elsewhere in these materials. The Supreme Court recited the four unities of interest, time, title, and possession, necessary to create a joint tenancy, noting that if one was destroyed, a tenancy in common resulted, and that the rules for creating a joint tenancy have been modified by statute in NRS 111.065. The Court held that a "characteristic" of joint tenancy is that either joint tenant can sever it, which the former husband in this case did. The Court noted that the decree had not prohibited future transfers [but did not indicate what would have happened if such transfers had been so prohibited]. It therefore reversed the order canceling the deed, and remanded. This court has previously created predictability for litigants to fill such a gap in the law in Malmquist v. Malmquist, 106 Nev. 231,792 P.2d 372 (1990). In Malmquist, this court adopted a standard formula for district courts to apply "to apportion the community and separate property shares in the appreciation of a separate property residence obtained with a separate property loan prior to marriage." Id. at 238, 792 P.2d at 376. This court noted that although the district courts can make equitable determinations in individual cases, "the aggregate result becomes unfair when similarly situated persons receive disparate returns on their home investments." Id. The same reasoning applies here. District courts can use their discretion to make fair determinations in individual child custody cases. However, this becomes unfair when different parties similarly situated obtain different results. In 1956, the parties entered into a written agreement settling maintenance and property rights. Each party was separately represented by counsel. The agreement specifically provided that the husband was obligated to the wife for her support and maintenance until she died or until she remarried, whichever occurred first. The agreement further provided that it could not be altered or modified except "in writing and executed with the same formality of this agreement by both parties." The agreement provided if a divorce proceeding was initiated, the agreement and its provision would be incorporated by reference and made a part of any decree granted. The agreement then stated that "notwithstanding the incorporation of this agreement in any such decree or judgment, this agreement shall not be merged in such decree or judgment, but shall survive the same and shall be binding and conclusive on the parties hereto, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for all time." Id. at 226-27. The wife came to Nevada and filed for divorce. The district court entered a decree which provided that "the certain property settlement agreement entered into by and between the parties hereto on the 21st day of March 1956 be ratified, approved and confirmed to survive this decree of divorce." Id. at 226-27. When the husband asked that the alimony award be modified, the district court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to do so. The valuation problem for defined contribution plans has not received nearly enough attention in the case law. If the marriage was not completely coextensive with the period of contributions, and there was any variation in the relative rate of contribution over time, a standard time-rule analysis to value the spousal share might not be appropriate at all. It would appear to be more precise - i.e., "fairer" - to trace the actual contributions to such an account from community and separate sources, and attribute interest and dividends over time accordingly.1 The scant case authority squarely addressing this issue has agreed with that proposition.2 Another common error of courts and counsel dividing defined contribution plans is the failure to take into account the time that will pass between the agreement or court proceeding and the physical division of the account. This can be done, easily, by a few words either providing for sharing of the investment gains and losses until actual distribution, or by freezing the spousal share at a specific sum for transfer. First, she claims that the period that she claims to have believed they were in Japan for "summer vacation" was a "temporary absence" within the meaning of the UCCJEA, and so does not count as part of the six month period.1 One of the most important variables in determining the proper amount of child support is the form of custody ordered by the court. Embedded in the child support guidelines of all the states is the presumption that the court will order "standard visitation" of 20% overnight visitation with the non-custodial parent. This 20% figure is based on 73 days: every other weekend (52 days), plus two weeks in summer (14 days), plus Mother's Day or Father's Day (1 day), plus Thanksgiving or Christmas (2 days), plus birthdays (2 days), plus a miscellaneous day (1 day). See Karen Czapanskiy, "Child Support, Visitation, Shared Custody and Split Custody," in Child Support Guidelines: The Next Generation 43, 44 (U.S. Dep't Health & Human Services, Office of Child Support Enforcement, 1994); Karen Czapanskiy, Child Support and Visitation: Rethinking the Connection, 20 Rut.-Cam. L.J. 619 (1989). When the parents have some form of shared physical custody that is over this 20%, the presurnption embedded in the guidelines no longer applies, and an adjustment to the support order should be made. 65279;The Court also found equitable estoppel inapplicable. The Court first recited the district court's factual findings that the wife had steadily affirmed that the husband was the father, that she placed his name on the birth certificate, that both parties held themselves out as parents ofthe child, and that she received welfare benefits by naming the husband as the father. Then, the Court reiterated that in Nevada, equitable estoppel has four elements: (l) the party to be estopped must be appraised of the true facts; (2) he must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon, or must so act that the party asserting estoppel has the right to believe it was so intended; (3) the party asserting estoppel must be ignorant ofthe true state of facts; and (4) he must have relied to his detriment on the conduct of the party to be estopped. "Substantial evidence" is that which "a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion." Applying this test, the Court found that the facts of record "simply do not support such a finding" (that the wife intended some conduct to be acted upon by the husband) since the evidence below was that the wife did not mislead the husband into believing he was the father ofthe child. The Court also noted that the record clearly showed that the husband was not "ignorant ofthe true facts," thus defeating the third element. The Court therefore found insufficient evidence to support a finding of estoppel. The commentary states that such a ban undermines the freedom of attorneys and informed clients to enter into fee arrangements that best suit the nature of particular cases and interests of both attorney and client, and notes that in the real world, the inability of poorer clients to pay the hourly fees accrued if they do not win their cases produces exactly the same economic result as a contingency fee in any event. SPAN> Carr-Bricken v. First Interstate Bank, 105 Nev. 402, 915 P.2d 254 (1996) While the divorce proceedings were pending, the husband died and was replaced as defendant by respondent First Interstate Bank of Nevada as Special Administrator of the Estate of Jules Bricken. The district court denied the wife’s request for temporary support. The Court held that orders for support pendente lite may be granted in the discretion of the district court citing to NRS 125.040(1). We conclude that the district court properly disregarded the parties' definition of joint physical custody because the district court must apply Nevada's physical custody definition-not the parties' definition. We also conclude that the district court abused its discretion by not making specific findings of fact to support its decision that the custody arrangement constituted joint physical custody and that modification of the divorce decree was in the best interest of the child. B> [ALT] 8. The Member is required to elect a form of benefit that would pay to the Alternate Payee (in the event of the Member’s death prior to that of the Alternate Payee), a sum equal to the amount that would be paid to Alternate Payee under Option 6 (actuarially reduced benefit paid for the lifetime of the retired employee), with the "specific sum" payable to the Alternate Payee to be calculated as follows: the system shall determine the Alternate Payee’s percentage under the formula set forth above once the Member actually retires; the system will then figure the monthly sum payable if the Alternate Payee obtains a survivorship interest sufficient to secure to him the sum payable under that formula; the difference between the sum payable to the Member if option One (unmodified) had been selected, and the sum to be paid with the Alternate Payee’s interest secured shall then be deducted entirely from the Alternate Payee’s portion of the benefits payable. In other words, the Alternate Payee’s interest should be secured in such a way that the Member’s death will not have the effect of raising or lowering the benefit payable to the Alternate Payee, and the entire premium for that protection should come from the sums payable to the Alternate Payee. This Order shall be considered by the retirement system to be a deemed election of whatever form of benefit shall accomplish that result. The apportionment of credit for "transferred" and "duplicated" expenses will require a determination of the annual number of overnights of parenting time exercised by the parent who is to pay child support, the use of the standard Child Support Obligation Worksheet, a Parenting Time Table, and a Parenting Time Credit Worksheet. The only practical method of ameliorating this risk would appear to be through private insurance. The problem is that few service members carry significant sums of secondary private insurance. I recently appeared in Family Court on what was supposed to be submission of a stipulated Decree. The judge stated that he did not believe he could safely accept a stipulated Decree of Divorce signed by me (Plaintiff’s counsel), on behalf of the Plaintiff, and by the Defendant in proper person, on the basis of NC-DSH, Inc. v. Garner, 125 Nev. ___, ___ P.3d ___ (Adv. Opn. No. 50, Oct. 29, 2009). Specifically, the judge expressed the opinion that the case appeared to make it mandatory to get a personal affidavit from the client, in addition to the signature of the attorney, in order to bind the client to the terms of a stipulated order. On the other hand, Steve Dallas, a lawyer character from the comic strip "Bloom County," was once depicted as stating: "Never, never, never sue poor people!" While this over-dramatizes the question, the sobering reality is that mounting a tort case against a number of defendants, often located in several states (or countries), is an extraordinarily complex, and expensive process.1 Without some good faith belief that someone in the reasonable chain of liability might actually be able to be compelled to pay a resulting judgment, counsel should hesitate before filing such an action, even when evidence of liability seems clear. As of February 4, 1991, the definition of "disposable pay" was altered by Congress to eliminate the pay center’s deduction of income taxes from gross retired pay when calculating the sum paid to spouses.3 The change was explicitly based on the "unfairness" of the effect of the previous phrasing.4 The Supreme Court reversed. The Court held that the premiums expended by the husband were not unreasonable in relation to the whole the community estate and the husband could name his sons as the beneficiaries. a) If a parent produces credible evidence that the approximate number exercised differs from the number granted by the custody or parenting time order, credit the number according to the evidence without requiring someone to formally petition to modify the custody or parenting time order. The husband quit a well paying job, moved to Nevada, took a lesser paying job, and filed for divorce. The wife appeared and contested the grounds. The district court refused to admit or consider evidence concerning the husband’s previous income and income earning ability or what other jobs might be available viewing such testimony as speculative and irrelevant. The court nevertheless found no difficulty in turning aside the military member’s attack on the Arizona rule of finality of property distributions, finding the spouse’s rights to the The parties married in 1977. They had two children. The parents each requested primary physical custody. On August 14, 1990, after nearly two years of hearings and, the district court decree of divorce. The district court indicated that the custody provisions, as set forth in the decree, were temporary and that custody would be reevaluated one year later. In addition, the district court ordered both parties were to submit a report showing specific efforts made to create a better environment for the children. The parties filed their respective May 1991. Several months later, the parties filed a "Request for Submission of Motion" pursuant to the local rules. In March 1992, evaluations of the father, the father’s new wife, the parties’ children and the new wife’s daughter. The mother received a letter from the evaluator inviting her to meet with him at her convenience and advised her that he would be submitting his report to the court during the first half of May. The mother failed to respond. Approximately two months later, the mother’s attorney sent a letter to the evaluator advising that the mother would be "quite willing to interview . . .to assist in any way possible." By that time, the report had already been submitted to the court. In July 1992, the district court filed its order which modified the temporary custody order of August, 1990, and provided that the father would have primary physical custody. The mother appealed claiming the district court failed to provide notice and a hearing prior to determining the issue of custody which violated her constitutional due process rights. The mother further contended that the district court’s reliance on the reports, which were not provided to the parties, prevented her from testing their validity by cross-examining the individuals who prepared them. The mother also alleged that the judge reviewed a ´phantom and/or fugitive report’ that in some way caused to him have bias requiring his disqualification. Members who first entered service between September 8, 1980, and July 31, 1986, must use the highest 3 years of basic pay rather than terminal basic pay. This has the effect of lowering retired pay for members whose pay increased at any time during their three most highly compensated years of service. If the court finds in the petitioner’s favor, it should issue an order with findings that the child’s habitual residence (prior to the wrongful removal or retention) was the place the child was located just prior to the respondent’s removal or retention, that the respondent’s removal or retention was wrongful in accordance with the Convention, that the removal or retention was in violation of the petitioner’s custody rights, and that the child is ordered returned to the country of the left-behind parent, in order for that country to determine custody. 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