Military Law

As an attorney with a military law-based practice representing veterans, military personnel, or their families, you’ll want to check out FindLaw’s collection of articles in the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library to help round out your research. Here you can learn how former military personnel can “buy back” their military time for retirement purposes or brush up on your knowledge of the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act. If your client is facing bankruptcy, you may want to know more about situations where military personnel may be subject to wage garnishment or what benefits a surviving spouse or heir is entitled to when a service member dies. Click on a link below to get started.

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Military Law Articles

Don’ts of Exporting

FindLaw presents some of the "Don'ts" when exporting goods to foreign countries. Being mindful of these cautions can avoid trouble and expense. It just takes a little quality control in advance.

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Civilian Counsel and Military Justice

Prosecution of charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) are extremely serious in nature and can result in a felony conviction as well as a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge and an unfortunate and untimely end to what otherwise ...
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Estimated Earnings During Military Service For Civil Retirement Purposes

For a former military member to have their service time considered for their civil service retirement they have to "buy back" that time. In order to "buy back" military service time for civil service retirement, former military members are required ...
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Fact Sheet: Involuntary Allotment From Military Personnel for Commercial Debt

By enacting Public Law 103-94, the "Hatch Act Reform Amendments of 1993," (codified at 5 U.S.C. 5520a) Congress authorized the garnishment of federal civilian employees' pay to satisfy commercial debts. In that same law, Congress authorized ...
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Fact Sheet: Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act Bulletin

The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (the Act), 10 U.S.C. 1408, recognizes the right of state courts to distribute military retired pay to a spouse or former spouse (hereafter, the former spouse) and provides a method of enforcing ...
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Media Access to the New Special Tribunals: Lessons Learned From History and the Military Courts

The right of the public and the press to attend the recently authorized special military tribunals has not been established as of this writing. History suggests any such right will be limited, but there are steps members of the news media can take ...
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Question and Answer: Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act

The court awarded me 50% of my former spouse's retired pay which had accrued as of the date of our divorce. Why do I need to get a clarifying order to have my award enforced under the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (USFSPA) ...
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Questions and Answers: Involuntary Allotments From Military Personnel For Commercial Debt

Involuntary allotmentsfrom military personnel for commercial debtfrequently asked questions and answers: March 12, 1999 at 07:17 ...
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SEC Staff Announces Plan to Publicly Release Comment Letters and Responses

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on June 24, 2004, that it plans to begin releasing SEC comment letters and issuer responses related to disclosure filings reviewed by the Divisions of Corporation Finance and ...
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Survivor Benefits Guide

This guide provides answers to many annuity questions. For specific questions concerning annuities, please write to DFAS-DE/FRB, 6760 E. Irvington Place, Denver CO 80279-6000, or call toll-free 1(800)435-3396, or call commercial (303) 676-6552. The ...
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