Marital Debts Athens GA

The collection of assets you and your spouse have gathered during your marriage, including money, real estate, investments, pension plans, and so on is referred to as marital property. Marital debts include obligations you took on together during your married life. Both the property and the debts belong to both spouses and part of the divorce process will be to divide them up between the two spouses. When a defined-benefit pension plan is being divided, the court must figure out how much of the plan is "marital" property and how much is "separate" property. The following principles apply:

• Pension benefits accrued before the marriage are "separate" property.
• Pension benefits accrued during the marriage are "marital" property.
• Pension benefits accrued after the separation are "separate" property again.
Having one spouse in the military affects:
• where your divorce will be filed
• how support is calculated
• custody and visitation decisions, and
• pension rights and other benefits.

Unless the service member in your family has been in the military an extremely short time and you have limited assets, you absolutely shouldn’t negotiate your divorce or sign a settlement agreement without at least consulting an attorney experienced in military divorce.

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