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AZdave
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What is the name of your state? Arizona
I am an active duty service member serving in the USAF. I was on active duty when I got married, 1987. In 1993 I was stationed in Panama and got a seperation from my wife. In our seperation agreement I took all debt which totalled $4400 in exchange for her not to touch my retirement pay.
The seperation agreement says "Wife, in consideration of this separation agreement, waives any right to such benefits and expressly agrees not to seek benefits under any divorce proceeding which may hereafter be instituted." Also toward the end of the Seperation agreement it has a statement that says "The parties further agree that no oral action may rescind this agreement and that it only may be modified, amended or voided by written agreement with signatures of both parties, or by the parties resuming to live together as husband and wife."
During the seperation I paid all of the $4400 debt off and we both got back together in April, 1995. Now her laywer is coming after me for a portion of my retirement. Military retirement is is considered community property. Didn't she give up the right to that property? Does she have any claim to my military retirement? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Total marriage while in the service is 16 years.
Thanks.
I am an active duty service member serving in the USAF. I was on active duty when I got married, 1987. In 1993 I was stationed in Panama and got a seperation from my wife. In our seperation agreement I took all debt which totalled $4400 in exchange for her not to touch my retirement pay.
The seperation agreement says "Wife, in consideration of this separation agreement, waives any right to such benefits and expressly agrees not to seek benefits under any divorce proceeding which may hereafter be instituted." Also toward the end of the Seperation agreement it has a statement that says "The parties further agree that no oral action may rescind this agreement and that it only may be modified, amended or voided by written agreement with signatures of both parties, or by the parties resuming to live together as husband and wife."
During the seperation I paid all of the $4400 debt off and we both got back together in April, 1995. Now her laywer is coming after me for a portion of my retirement. Military retirement is is considered community property. Didn't she give up the right to that property? Does she have any claim to my military retirement? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Total marriage while in the service is 16 years.
Thanks.