Military Law,
Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Nov. 24, 2015
Litigating with service members
Courts from time to time encounter parties to a lawsuit who are on active duty in the armed forces.
Mark E. Sullivan
Email: mark.sullivan@ncfamilylaw.com
Mark is a retired Army Reserve JAG colonel, a board-certified specialist in family law and a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers who practices in Raleigh, N.C. The chairman of the Military Committee of the ABA Family Law Section, Sullivan is the author of The Military Divorce Handbook (ABA 2006).
Courts from time to time encounter parties to a lawsuit who are on active duty in the armed forces. This article highlights the impact of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 App. U.S.C. Section 501 et seq.) on civil litigation.
The objective of this article and accompanying self-study test is to review important ways in which the SCRA impacts civil litigation. Readers will learn about the SCRA's general applicability, the SCRA's effect on entry of default judgments, stay of proc...
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