Watson v. Watson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that it lacked authority to preempt the time restrictions in the federal SBP provisions
• holding that federal law preempts state law when a former spouse does not submit a timely deemed election under the SBP statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Turnmire v. Turnmire
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2022-11-07· cited 7×
• Wheeler v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2025-11-19

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• King v. King
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-07· cited 16×
• Dugan v. Childers
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 15×
• Silva v. Silva
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 7×