Divorce payments from veterans benefits
Antoine Lenoir JenKings v. White-Jenkins
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Antoine Lenoir JenKings has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review whether Florida may enforce a marital-property agreement that sets monthly payments based on military retirement, including retirement value federal law excludes from division, and require payment from protected veterans’ benefits.
- What's at stake
- For JenKings and Andretta White-Jenkins, it remains unresolved whether federal law limits enforcement of their marital-property agreement.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition asks how federal protections for military retirement and veterans’ benefits apply to a state marital-property agreement.
Question presented
1. Whether the Uniformed Services Former Spouses ’ Protection Act permits a State to enforce, as a matter of state contract law, an indemnification provision that fixes a monthly property award measured by “ disposable retired pay, ” credits every payment made through 10 U.S.C. § 1408 dollar-for-dollar, and makes the member personally liable for the balance, to the extent that the obligation replaces retirement value excluded from division by federal law. 2. Whether 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a)(1) permits a state court to compel payment of a non-support marital-property obligation from protected veterans ’ benefits through an order directed to the veteran personally rather than to the benefit payor or depository?
What happens next
The Court’s next step is to decide whether to hear the petition. No argument date or decision timing has been set.
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Sources
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