Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alaska. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Military Pensions & Retirement Benefits: Dividing It Up Right (Alaska CLE)

The Alaska Bar Association CLE "Military Pensions & Retirement Benefits: Dividing It Up Right" covers material that is largely based in federal law, and may therefore be useful to practitioners everywhere.

Topics:
  • A comprehensive examination of military retirement and related benefits, including medical, disability, and survivorship matters
  • Techniques in attacking and defending matters of jurisdiction, retirement shares, and the burden of paying for survivor’s benefits
  • Issues of valuation, distribution, and traps relating to early and late retirement
  • Alphabet soup of acronyms, including TSP, REDUX, SBP, and DEERS
  • Partition actions, foreign divorces, bankruptcy, dealing with Reservists, and more  
Program Recording:
You can order the program on CD, DVD or via download at https://www.alaskabar.org/servlet/clecatalog?id=41


The Documentation is Available Free:
2009-013 Military Pensions & Retirement Benefits.pdf


The first few pages are taken up with a powerpoint of amusing quotes, but don't be fooled: the meat of the document has several interest and useful essays on the subjects above.

Faculty:
Marshal Willick is the principal of the Willick Law Group, an A/V rated Family Law firm in Las Vegas, Nevada, and practices in trial and appellate Family Law. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist, a Fellow of both the American and International Academies of Matrimonial Lawyers, former Chair of the Nevada Bar Family Law Section and former President of the Nevada chapter of the AAML. He has authored several books and articles on Family Law and retirement benefits issues, and was managing editor of the Nevada Family Law Practice Manual.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Alaska Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP)

The legal community in Alaska provides legal assistance to service members, veterans and their families in a variety of ways.

For the Warrior Community

Active duty service members may wish to go first to Armed Forces Legal Assistance's online database; its list of resources in the state of Alaska is here

General-Purpose Resources

Servicemembers, veterans and their families are of course eligible to use the same resources as anyone else.

Private Practice Attorneys

Often, a lawyer in private practice will listen to your situation for 15 or 20 minutes, then give you an idea about how to proceed, in general terms, without charging you anything. If the matter is something the lawyer can help you with, but must charge for, sometimes you can work out a military-family discount, especially if you are organized, polite and easy to work with. The Findlaw website has a city-by-city list of lawyers interested in representing active-duty military personnel, military reservists, and veterans
here.

For Lawyers

The Alaska Bar Association's List of Pro Bono Providers is a great place to find opportunities of providing help to our warrior community. While I have not found a Legal Assistance to Military Personnel (LAMP) Section or Committee in the Alaska State Bar, locating one or setting one up might be a great opportunity for an entreprenuerial attorney looking for a leadership opportunity.

It is likely that there are other Alaska programs, sponsored by local bar associations, law schools, and others. Anyone with more information on these or other programs are invited to contact me; the most convenient way is to add in a comment below. The purpose is service!

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