The Board found that the Veteran was not reasonably discharging his responsibility for supporting his child and granted an apportionment of $700 per month to cover child support and arrearages, effective May 1, 2019. The decision is binding only with respect to this specific matter.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran was not reasonably discharging his responsibility for supporting his child throughout the relevant period of the claim and granted an apportionment amounting to less than 20 percent of the Veteran's total award, which has not been shown to cause undue hardship.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 14, 2020
- Citation
- A20015559
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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