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• Stateside Legal

  Stateside Legal is a national resource for members of the military, veterans, their families and advocates. It goal is to help you access benefits, find free legal help, and better understand your legal issues. This site indexes the best legal information available in one easy-to-use website that includes interactive forms, videos, and legal analysis. Content Detail

• Veterans Legal Help Navigator

  This online tool from Stateside Legal helps veterans' caseworkers and advocates across the country find the right fit legal help for veterans. The Navigator will ask a series of questions about the veteran's income, household size, location and legal issue. Using this information, it will provide the right fit legal help for the veteran. The Navigator will also suggest resources to learn about the veteran’s legal issue and self-help materials for the veteran. Content Detail

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  Stateside Legal

• A Handbook for Military Families - Helping You with Child Support

  This handbook from the Office of Child Support Enforcement provides information a military family might need regarding paternity establishment, child support, access/visitation, and child custody. [PDF] Content Detail

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  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Child Support and Alimony - How to Start Child Support or Alimony Payments

  Federal law authorizes the pay of active, reserve, and retired members of the military and the pay of civilian employees of the Federal government to be garnished (or attached) for the payment of child and/or spousal support. This provides information about the process and location for getting a garnishment or wage attachment against any member of the military or any civilian employee of the Department of Defense (DOD). Content Detail

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  Defense Finance and Accounting Service

• Child Support and Alimony - Questions and Answers

  Questions and answers about the collection of child support and alimony from military personnel from the Defense Finance and Accounting Services. Content Detail

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  Defense Finance and Accounting Services

• Garnishment: Military

  List of resources and sources of information regarding garnishment of military wages from the U.S. Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Content Detail

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  U.S. Defense Finance and Accounting Service

• Military Child Care Programs

  Resources from Child Care Aware of America to help those who serve in the military find and afford child care that suits their unique needs. Content Detail

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  Child Care Aware of America

• Uniformed Services Former Spouse's Protection Act - Frequently Asked Questions

  Information from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service on the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act which recognizes the right of state courts to distribute military retired pay to a spouse or former spouse and provides a method of enforcing these orders through the Department of Defense. The Act also provides a method of enforcing current child support and/or arrears and current alimony awarded in the court order. Content Detail

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  Defense Finance and Accounting Service

• Veterans in the Child Support Caseload

  This fact sheet from the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Health and Human Services focuses on veterans who are noncustodial parents in the child support caseload and how the program can help them. Content Detail

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  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Scholarships for Military Children

  Information on the Scholarships for Military Children Program that was created to recognize the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and to celebrate the role of the commissary in the military family community. Content Detail

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  Scholarships for Military Children

• Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents

  Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This booklet from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs contains a summary of these benefits. Read More

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  United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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  Spanish / Español

• I am a Dependent or Survivor: Survivor Benefits

  Information from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs about Survivor Benefits available to surviving spouses and dependents of military personnel who died while in active military service and to the survivors of veterans who died after active service. Content Detail

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  United States Department of Veterans Affairs

• Life Insurance

  Information from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs on insurance programs that were developed to provide insurance benefits for veterans and service members who may not be able to get insurance from private companies because of the extra risks involved in military service, or a service connected disability. Content Detail

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  United States Department of Veterans Affairs

• Military Retired and Annuitant Pay Information

  Information from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service about retirement and annuitant pay. Content Detail

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  Defense Finance and Accounting Service

• Survivors Benefits Plan (Department of Defense)

  Information from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which provides payment services of the U.S. Department of Defense, about the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) available to a beneficiary of a deceased military retiree. Content Detail

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  Defense Finance and Accounting Service