Matter of C. S. (Donte S.)

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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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