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B-205174 1 (1982-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkfo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-205174 I/Ego1t) 0E0C3CN MATTER OF. Petty Offlcer First Class Dennis W. Methvin, USN DIGEST; A service member who married a foreig:i nation 1 in Virginia after he secured in ex -vate divorce from his first wife in et Doinican Rapubli, where it appears that he did not establ ish a residence or domicile and where his wife was not present in person or represented by counsel, now seeks dependent benefits for the second wife and her dependent children. This entitlement may not be allowed in view of the longstanding rule that in the absence of bona fide domicile in the foreign cou-ntry w e the divorce is granted, such divorces are considered of such doubtful validity that Lecog- nition of the divorce and subsequent marriagetis required by a court of competunt Jurisdlction in the United States. Further, neither the issuance of a state required marriage license nor the.flsuance of at alien residency card identifyij;g the second wife as t.he member's spouse, satisfies the court recognition requirement. Is a member of the United States Navy entitled to additional benefits on account of his second wife and her children on the basis of a marriage entered into following a divorce procured in the Dominican Republic, where his first wife did not personally appear, nor was she represented by an attorney? EUL the following reasons he is not entitled to additional benefits based on the second marriage. This question was presented as a request for advance decision by a Navy Disbursing Officer, and has bean assigned control number DO-N-1376 by the Department of Defense Mili- tary Pay and Allowance Committee. I..; I,' THE COMP''ROLLAl GENEAt OF THU UNITED UTATEE WASlE:HING prON, ,0, SW DATE; April 3.2, 1982 FILEi

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