What is a military spouse entitled to after divorce?
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What is a military spouse entitled to after divorce?
After divorce, the former spouse is entitled to the Continued Health Care Benefit Program (CHCBP), which is the Tricare version of “COBRA” for three years. And as long as the spouse remains unmarried and was also awarded a share of the military retirement or SBP, the former spouse may remain on CHCBP for life.
What is a military spouse entitled to?
Most also receive a variety of allowances, special pays and bonuses depending on things like deployment, paygrade and military job. For most married service members, those allowances include Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) and Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). Guard and Reserve pay work a little differently.
Can your spouse make you get a divorce?
If a woman wants a divorce, both spouses are getting a divorce. Wives don't need their husbands' permission to divorce them. But how you proceed – and how difficult you make it on yourself and your children, is up to both of you.
Does military pay for divorce?
The USFSPA allows state courts to grant up to half of a service member's retirement pension to his ex-wife during divorce proceedings but that is simply the most that the finance center will take out of the retiree's pay.