2012 Oklahoma Senate Bill 1887 Drops Retroactive Push
Oklahoma has introduced a new bill concerning USFSPA, Senate Bill 1887 in February, 2012. Compared to previous bills, SB 1887 has deleted all language concerning retrospective (retroactive) implementation of any new USFSPA changes.
This is good news for divorces already finalized. In those cases, service members and former spouses can continue to move forward with their lives. There will be no need to go back to court to open new discussions concerning division of military retirement pay. This is a positive step as there is no need to revisit the emotional turmoil experienced in a military divorce.
The deletion of the retrospective concept might also serve as an example or precedent should any other state decide to take initiatives to change the application of the USFSPA. Since Oklahoma has decided that a retrospective bill is unfair, then it might follow that other states would view the issue in the same manner.
View the Oklahoma Senate Bill 1887.
Let us know your thoughts. We’ll go over some of the proposals of SB 1877 in the next posts.
Marriage is a contract and so is the divorce decree. The court order from a divorce is a dissolution of the marriage contract and a division of what was earned by both parties during the marriage. No state has the right to retroactively revoke a division of property awarded in a long past divorce decree. If you don’t want to divide assets earned during a marriage, don’t get married. It is that simple. Since my ex-husband spent more than he earned, there was not much property to divide except his “retired pay”. I sleep fine; you get a life whoever you are! People that lie and cheat during the marriage sometimes get what they deserve. The liars and cheaters should not be able to dump a life partner with nothing. I didn’t marry the louse and stay with him for all of my youth to get dumped and have someone else benefit from the years I spent supporting my cheating military spouse and moving around like a gypsy. Again, if you don’t want to share assets during a marriage that ends for whatever reason, don’t get married!
“The attempt by the Oklahoma legislature to reverse court orders from the last several decades is ludicrous”
Not nearly as ludicrous as having to split your monthly wages AFTER the divorce is finalized, for life. Or remarried former spouses leeching off their former spouse for life. Alimony expires upon remarriage/cohabitation, so should any other support. Women are setting themselves back 50 years. I like the law in S Korea, which ever party files for divorce gets nothing and no custody of any children. Their divorce rate is less than 1%.