EPILOGUE:

Problems with my divorce situation and the USFSPA began in 1994.  It is now 
1999 and legal actions are still ongoing. 

While searching for attorneys and thinking about how an overpayment of more 
than $18,000.00 had occurred, I realized virtually all of the problems I had 
experienced with my divorce would not have occurred if:

  -   there was no USFSPA,

  -   the USFSPA provided for recourses for military retirees to petition a 
Court to stop or reduce ex-spouse military retirement payments after divorce 
decrees were rendered if it could be demonstrated ex-spouses payments were no 
longer justified,

  -   overpayment laws were abided by internally within the DFAS organization

  -   I had not served in and subsequently retired from the military

In effect, I realized what had occurred was my status as a military Veteran 
and in completing military service had been used against me mostly by the 
Court System (i.e., Judges who abused their judicial discretion) in the State 
of Texas and to a lesser degree by the United States Government.  

I was defacto penalized because I was an American military Veteran.

Furthermore, a State Court system legitimized and sanctioned fraudulent and 
false claims for military retired pay that were in excess of court orders and 
in violation of Court orders, USFSPA laws, and all income tax laws.

In my situation, Texas State Court system had even carried the USFSPA so far 
so as to make a foreign ex-spouse such a special individual (who is unlike 
virtually all other Americans) in that she can receive a U.S. Government 
payment and be able to avoid American taxes.  In turn, I am subject to a 
double taxation.

Other individuals could not be treated in the same way by Courts system 
because they are not military Veterans.

My "only" alternate to correcting the problem with recouping payments 
wrongfully made to my ex-spouse and her attorney under the laws prescribed in 
the United States was for me to incur expenses for attorney fees and hope my 
case is heard by a Judge who would at least consider all laws.. 

Regardless of the outcome, further time and or money is certain to be lost - d
ue to the problems created by the USFSPA.