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Do as I Say and Not as I Do

Priest v. Priest, No. 2016-CA-001270-MR (Ky. App. 2017) 

Court of Appeals Makes a Plea to the Kentucky Supreme Court Regarding the Inequity Caused by a Diminishing Coverture Fraction as Directed under Current Law

Rendered: November 9, 2017
To Be Published
Opinion Affirming In Part, Reversing in Part, and Remanding 

Author’s Note: Thank you Tim Theissen, Esq., of Strauss Troy, for sharing this case with me the day it came out - actually that very afternoon during a lunch meeting.  (Thanks for ruining my lunch, Tim!)

“Houston, we have a problem.”  This is the essence of Priest v. PriestPriest involves the division and assignment of a military pension in divorce, and you may remember it from the first time it came through the Court, in 2015, wherein the Court remanded back to the trial court for findings consistent with Poe v. Poe, 711 S.W.2d 849, 850 (Ky. App. 1986), and Snodgrass v. Snodgrass, 297 S.W.3d 878, 890-891 (Ky. App. 2009).  See my prior blog post at:  http://www.ezlawpllc.com/blog/2015/5/17/qdro-catch-up-case-law-legislative-updates-in-ohio-kentucky.

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QDRO Catch-Up: Case Law & Legislative Updates in Ohio & Kentucky

I have felt your distress from my lack of monthly posts since February. I have felt your yearning for EZ QDRO Law Updates. I have felt your hunger for more more more. Alas, I have been juggling multiple QDRO balls lately, and let this one drop. Before I leave for my QDRO sabbatical (I bet those two words have never met before in the same sentence), I wanted to post a few recent case law updates for Kentucky and a legislative update for Ohio. Of note, the 12th District Ohio Court of Appeals & Supreme Court of Ohio have been QDRO-quiet so far this year.

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