Legal Opinion
Brown v. Harms
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 26, 1994No. Civ. A. 94-901-APublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
This is an action for partition of a military officer’s retirement pay. It is brought by the retired officer’s spouse following the dissolution of the marriage by a German court. The question presented is whether the Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act (the “Act”) 1 creates federal subject matter jurisdiction. For the reasons that follow, the Court concludes that it does not.
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Defendant, a career military officer, and Plaintiff married in 1967. By 1984, the marriage had deteriorated and the parties were living separately in Germany. On March…
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