Special Care Nursing Services, Inc. v. Fox

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• recognizing that Howell and Mansell stand for the proposition that “state courts lack the authority to treat disability pay as community property and to divide it in a divorce disposition”
• holding that “state courts do not improperly divide disability pay when they enforce the terms of a negotiated property settlement as res judicata, even if the parties agreed on a reimbursement provision that the state court would lack authority to otherwise mandate”
• declining to broaden these cases to preempt enforcement of a divorce settlement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).