Supreme Court· 5/30/1989

Mansell v. Mansell

Citations

490 U.S. 581
109 S. Ct. 2023
104 L. Ed. 2d 675
1989 U.S. LEXIS 2605
57 U.S.L.W. 4567
10 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2521

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holding that Congress must affirmatively grant authority to permit state courts to divide military retirement pay
holding that military retirement pay that had been waived by former husband to receive veterans’ disability benefits was not community property divisible upon divorce
holding that the USFSPA did “not grant state courts the power to treat as property divisible upon divorce military retirement pay that has been waived to receive veterans’ disability benefits”
holding that the USFSPA did \not grant state courts the power to treat as property divisible upon divorce military retirement pay that has been waived to receive veterans' disability benefits\
holding that federal law preempted and precluded state law division of VA disability retirement pay as marital property
holding that state courts are prohibited from dividing military retirement pay waived in favor of military disability benefits.

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