Breen v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Former spouses divorced in the interim period between the McCarty decision and the effective date of this law will have the opportunity to return to court to have their decrees modified in light of this legislation. However, nothing in. this bill would mandate payments of retired pay which had been disbursed during the period between the date of the McCarty decision and the effective date of this legislation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Wright v. Wright

2. “It is pure speculation to evaluate the degree of unfairness to litigants who are not awarded a share of their spouses’ military retirement benefits because their divorce became final between June 25, 1981 and February 1, 1983. Of equal difficulty would be measuring the disruption to property and contractual rights for those who are relying on the validity of judgments finalized during that period.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allison v. Allison