My fiancee and i are planning to get married in a month when he finishes basic ft. benning. his duty station is ft. carson. our plan was to get married and settle in after i graduate college may '10. our BIGGEST problem is that i have a 2 yr. old son by my ex, and my ex and i recently have gotten into some issues about visitation, and are going to get into more issues when i tell him that we want to relocate with my fiancee.
my question is, that if we can accompany my fiancee at ft. carson, but need to stay in cali until some sort of court order goes through, how does bah work?? do we share it?? is he allowed to live in the barracks?? or does he have to find his own housing?? if we can't go with him, do we also get seperation pay, or is it only if the move was ordered unaccompanied??
any and all information would be extremely appreciated.
my question is, that if we can accompany my fiancee at ft. carson, but need to stay in cali until some sort of court order goes through, how does bah work?? do we share it?? is he allowed to live in the barracks?? or does he have to find his own housing?? if we can't go with him, do we also get seperation pay, or is it only if the move was ordered unaccompanied??
any and all information would be extremely appreciated.
He can't live in barracks when on accompanied orders and get BAH, it is one or the other. He will have to find a place off base and then pay the rent there and any rent that you have with the BAH based on where he is.
He will not get Separation Allowance because you can't be there, that is only paid when he is on orders over 30 days where family can't be with him. This is Basic, school, TAD, TDY and deployment.
Im going to contradict Marea a little bit-she really knows what she is talking about-but i am at carson and i know how the commands here handle things. If your waiting time for a court order were short-it is possible that your husband-he would have to be your husband-would be allowed to live in the barracks for a couple of months-i know plenty of guys that have gone into the barracks either because they moved momma and the kids home for the duration of a deployment and gave up their housing-or were in the middle of a seperation and trying to work things out-or the came here a bit ahead while kids finished school at another post-however-you dont want to count on that as an option-because it is very dependant on the commander-and the brigade-one of 4IDS brigades has been here several years and more of the soldiers have off post housing-so they have some space in their barracks-the brigades that just came here recently have more soldiers living on post and less available housing. Your best option is to plan for dual households-how ever you would need to manage that-he could get a small studio close to post for not tons of money-and hope that it wouldnt be to long before you could follow on. As was stated before-no seperation pay-and BAH here is not going to seem like alot because althought housing is expensive compared to some places its cheap compared to california. Also i dont know what the laws are like in california-but you probably want to work this out there-because colorado has pretty strict laws governing the access of non custodial parents to minor children and trying to have a colorado court work your issue might make it worse.
