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ABA Publishing announces this guide to valuing, dividing and distributing military retirement benefits upon divorce:

From the American Bar Association Section of Family Law:
"Military Retirement Benefits in Divorce: A Lawyer's Guide to Valuation and
Distribution"
By Marshal S. Willick

This guide helps you identify and evaluate actual or potential retirement
benefits when handling a client's divorce. Because these benefits are often
the most valuable assets in military families where frequent moves make it
difficult to build equity in a home, knowing what the retirement benefits
are and how to accurately value and divide them will help protect your
military client or non-military spouse from potentially enormous losses.

"Military Retirement Benefits in Divorce" by Marshal S. Willick is a unique
and completely practical guide to an especially complicated aspect of family
law practice. This book will help you:
-- Value retirement plans and other service benefits
-- Obtain information and payment from military pay centers
-- Manage multi-state and international litigation
-- Handle survivorship benefits
-- Deal with jurisdiction traps
-- Obtain direct payment of benefits
-- Appeal adverse decisions

Giving you quick access to complicated and often hard-to-locate information,
this book provides a clear overview of workings of the military retirement
system. It covers all key legal decisions and details important procedural
limitations and substantive issues, including critical jurisdiction factors,
the ten-year limitation, relevant tax ramifications, bankruptcy court
holdings dealing with military retirement, and problems related to early
retirement options.

"Military Retirement Benefits in Divorce" is written by an experienced
litigator and provides practical tips on handling these cases in court.
Among the dozens of tools available in the book are:
-- Sample decrees, forms, and language
-- A state-by-state review of military benefits
-- "Hands-on" practice tips
-- Checklist for handling military retirement cases
-- Pay charts for active and retired service members
-- Advice on drafting paperwork directed to the military for enforcement
-- Glossary of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms
-- Key statutes and regulations
-- Contact source listings

1998, 392 pages + addendum, 6 x 9, paperback, ISBN: 1-57073-572-7

Price: $89.95 for ABA Section of Family Law members / $99.95 for nonmembers.