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B-202543 1 (1981-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjvs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION THE COMPTROLLER GENERALA ,ps( /15 OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-202543 DATE: October 29, 1981 Return travel to United States for MATTER OF: dependents of uniformed services member following divorce Proposed amendment to the Joint Travel Regulations to increase from 6 months to 1 year after relief of uniformed services member from his overseas duty station during which transportation of ex-family members must take place should not be implemented. Any extension of time for travel beyond that currently allowed may be authorized only if justified on an individual case basis when it can be shown that the return took place as soon as reasonably possible after the divorce and departure of the member from the overseas station. The Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) has requested our decision as to whether Volume I of the Joint Travel 1egulations (1 JTR) may be amended to eliminate the requirement that in cases where a member's marriage is dissolved, entitlement to transportation of ex-family members will terminate 6 months after the relief of the member from the overseas duty station incident to a permanent change of station. The request has been assigned Control No. 81-2 by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee. Since return of the family members must be reasonably related to the termination of the family member status, we cannot authorize a general increase in the time allowable. However, a provision which would authorize the granting of exceptions to the 6-month limit would not be objec- tionable if those exceptions were allowed only in cases where the delay was not merely a matter of personal preference and return to the United States was accom- plished as soon after the divorce or annulment as was reasonably possible. In decision 53 Comp. Gen. 960 (1974), we stated that we would have no objection to an amendment to Volume 1 of the JTR that would permit members of the uniformed services stationed overseas to be reimbursed for the return travel to the United States of a spouse ~77 DIGEST:

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