Divorce and base housing

There are factors that your chain will take into account.

First: Your finances, any half-assed decent supervisor and CC will require you to attend a financial readiness course and establish a budget usually offered through the Airman and Family Readiness Center. I suggest you complete this as a preemptive measure and present it to your supervisor to show you're financially ready to move off base.

Second: The amount of home furnishings you have. Your leadership cannot expect you to put a 2 or 3 bedroom houses worth of furnishings into storage and move into the dorms. MOST OF THE TIME anyway.

Third: Your age/maturity level. If you're 19 years old and barely out of your parents home....I'd be skeptical about allowing you to home off base.

These are just a few things your leadership SHOULD consider.

If you go to your chain and present them with ONE a budget and TWO a plan, there isn't any real reason if you feel you're stable enough to move off base that you shouldn't be allowed. As a troop its always best to present a solution rather than a problem to your chain in order to get the outcome you desire.

Also, you should know that if/when you get divorced you need to split the property you own fairly. Even if you have to move in the dorms, your (soon to be ex) husband doesn't get everything by default....thats not how it works.

If the two of you decide to divide your property equally and go your separate ways then your divorce is "uncontested". The moment that he says "I want XXX" and you want XXX then it becomes contested. If you have debt associated with things you own (e.g. you put your furnishings your STAR card) then if he decides he wants said furnishings he must take the debt as well.

If you plan on getting a divorce proceed to legal and see if they can inform you of any and all divorce laws in the state you plan on divorcing through.

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