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You fear predatory women. Do these women hold guns to these GI's heads?

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Originally posted by HRK:

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You fear predatory women. Do these women hold guns to these GI's heads?

No they can hold their more powerful weapon up to a GI's "little head".

Like a buddy said, women have half the money in the world, and the parts to get the other half...

I do have an issue with someone that gets married for say 8 years and somehow is now entitled to retirement benefits for life of
the other partner, I can see shared retirement benefits for the term equal to the marriage but no longer...

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Bremelos

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Originally posted by mutedblade:
Soldier Sam, age 18, rank E-2 marries Sally Spreads-Herlegs, also age 18. They were married for 11 deployment filled years, over which time Sam had deployed to 3 hostile fire "combat" zones for a total of 7 years averaging 8 months per deployment. Sally was lonely during Sams deployments so she found Studly Do Right to entertain herself. After his Nth deployment, Sally decided to serve divorce papers to Sam on account of his "inability to maintain a relationship" or some such bullshit. Divorce is done, all is good or so it seems, until Sam retired at 22 years of service and the rank of E-8. Now he finds that he owes Sally 50% of his hard earned money until her death. $2658.50 per month until she dies. That's $31,902 per year, for life, all for basically 4 years of sammiches, clean undies, and sloppy seconds! Let's say Sally gives up the ghost and dies at 68 years old. She would have gotten from Sam $893,256 assuming no increase in retired mil pay rates during that time. Not bad, especially considering Sally had gotten herself healthcare, food/housing, and an education while married to ol' Sam. She went on to become some kind of high level manager for a business making 2 times what he ever did while in the military. Should he be entitled to anything she earned because of the education she earned while she was married to him? Should he not still expect at least a meal or two a month, and maybe even a bj from her, since he is "paying" her for her wifely duties? Or is this a case of he gets screwed (not in the good way) because she's a "fragile" woman and lots of laws are written to protect them, even though they no longer need protecting?

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
https://www.dfas.mil/garnishment/usfspa/faqs.html

No, there is no Federal law that automatically entitles a former spouse to a portion of a member’s military retired pay. A former spouse must have been awarded a portion of a member’s military retired pay in a State court order. The Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (USFSPA), Title 10, United States Code, Section 1408, passed in 1981, accomplishes two things. First, it authorizes (but does not require) State courts to divide military retired pay as a marital asset or as community property in a divorce proceeding. Second, it provides a mechanism for a former spouse to enforce a retired pay as property award by direct payments from the member’s retired pay. Retired pay as property payments are prospective only. Retired pay arrears cannot be collected under the USFSPA.