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BACK TO THE ICE AGE, THE MILITARY’S NEW FROZEN BENEFIT RULE The National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (“NDAA”) has seriously reduced the claims available to a service members former spouse in a divorce action due to the new Frozen Benefit Rule. Prior to the NDAA of 2017, the rules…

Can a military member erase their ex-spouse’s military retirement benefit? With the increasing number of deployments in the past two decades many Soldiers leave the military with either a VA disability, Combat Related Special Compensation or Military Retirement Disability.  Many of these Soldiers have had a divorce or are contemplating…

Too many times a soldier would walk into my office and inform me “my spouse can’t get any of my retirement, we haven’t been married 10 years”.  This fallacy still exists today and nothing could be further from the truth. There are numerous ways to explain but to focus on…