I am constantly contacted by recent military retirees in Florida who want to know whether they can change the provision in their divorce judgment as it relates to division of a military pension with a former spouse. The common scenario is this:  military member gets married young and divorces some years later.  The military member […]

Performance Review Boards, or a “PRB,” is the formal hearing before a panel of officers given to a Naval Reserve Officer Training Command (NROTC) student before a disenrollment or discipline decision is given by the NROTC unit Commanding Officer or Professor of Naval Science (PNS).   At the PRB, the student has many important rights

The majority of cases reviewed by administrative judges from the Department of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) involve allegations of financial concerns under Guideline F to DoD Directive 5220.6.  Financial concerns for security clearance applicants are almost always raised following a review of the applicant’s credit reports during the investigation process.  The Central Adjudication Facilities (CAF)

1) Stay out of trouble The biggest mistake that Marines make when they are told they are being kicked out of the Marine Corps (often with an “OTH”) is to throw in the towel and engage in additional misconduct. I represented an officer who tested positive on a urinalysis. He was so upset about the

Special Courts-Martial The special court-martial can try any servicemember for any noncapital offense or, under presidential regulation, capital offenses. Special courts-martial generally try offenses that are considered misdemeanors. A special court-martial can be composed of a military judge alone, not less than three members, or a military judge and not less than three members. Contrary

ROTC stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps.  The Army, Air Force, and Navy maintain ROTC programs at colleges and universities around the country. There are two types of ROTC Cadets or Midshipman: scholarship and non-scholarship.  Those “on scholarship” have their education paid for and receive monthly living allowances in exchange for a defined military obligation

Does sharing a computer with someone give that person authority to consent to a search and seizure by law enforcement during a child pornography investigation? This was the question that the Seventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals recently answered in United States v. Wright.  In Wright, a husband and wife had a domestic incident and

Korody Law represents federal employees, military members, and federal contractors facing security clearance denials and revocations in and around Pensacola, Florida.  Mr. Korody spend 3 years stationed at NAS Pensacola while on active duty as a Navy JAG is uniquely familiar with the local military industrial complex.  Mr. Korody is Florida’s premier Security Clearance Lawyer,

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Officer Court-Martial Defense Officers are treated differently by the military justice system.  An officer court-martial is fundamentally different than a court-martial for an enlisted person.  The Manual for Courts-Martial (the MCM) has dozens of provisions that separate officers from enlisted.  The treatment stems from the historical difference in rank – basically the military’s “class” system.