37 Ark. App. 100 - Hapney v. Hapney’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2013
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on Mansell v. Mansell · 30 Ark. App. 147 - Ford v. Ford · Gould v. Gould · 21 Ark. App. 177 - Reves v. Reves
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find no merit to this contention. Although the United States Supreme Court has held that the Uniformed Services Former Spouse’s Protection Act does not permit state courts to treat certain military retirement pay, waived by the retiree in order to receive (or increase) Veteran’s disability benefits, as property divisible upon divorce, Mansell v. Mansell, 490 U.S. 581 (1989), the appellant’s argument lacks merit because the record in the case at bar does not demonstrate that the $300.00 per month award constituted a division of his Veteran’s disability benefits. The divorce decree did not purport to award the appellee a portion of the appellant’s disability benefits, but instead was limited to the appellant’s military retirement benefits. Moreover, as noted earlier, in the order appealed from the chancellor found that the appellee’s agreement to accept $300.00 per month, in lieu of the larger amount to which she was entitled, was made in consideration of concessions made in the parties’ overall property settlement, including other matters relating to the division of marital property and alimony. Because the parties’ original agreement, as submitted to the chancellor and incorporated into his decree, has not been included in the abstract before us, we are unable to determine the percentage of the $300.00 award which was based on military retirement benefits, as opposed to other consideration, or to say that the chancellor erred in so construing the agreement of the parties. ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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