{"id":449,"date":"2017-05-30T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=449"},"modified":"2023-12-15T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T22:00:01","slug":"veterans-retirement-pay-can-be-distributed-as-community-property-but-not-so-for-disability-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2017\/05\/30\/veterans-retirement-pay-can-be-distributed-as-community-property-but-not-so-for-disability-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s retirement pay can be distributed as community property but not so for disability benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/16pdf\/15-1031_hejm.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Howell v. Howell<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0197 L. Ed. 2d 781 (2017), the Supreme Court interpreted and applied a federal statute that allows veterans&#8217; retirement pay to be distributed on divorce as community property but does not allow distribution of disability benefits. 10 U.S.C. \u00a71408(c)(1), \u00a71408(a)(4)(B).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/marital-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marital Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Howell v. Howell,\u00a0197 L. Ed. 2d 781 (2017), the Supreme Court interpreted and applied a federal statute that allows veterans&#8217; retirement pay to be distributed on divorce as community property but does not allow distribution of disability benefits. 10 U.S.C. \u00a71408(c)(1), \u00a71408(a)(4)(B).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marital-property"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}