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Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act
(redirected from SSCRA)

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Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act (SSCRA)

A federal law providing protections for persons who may be handicapped by active military service. Protection is extended to active-duty military personnel (and sometimes their dependents), and to reservists and members of the National Guard who are called up to active federal services.Benefits of the Act include the ability to request interest rate reductions on all debt incurred before entering military service, including mortgage debt but excluding student loans; stop eviction proceedings if the monthly rent is under a preset amount; terminate a residential lease without penalty if the lease was entered into before active military duty; and delay civil lawsuits such as collection cases,bankruptcy,foreclosure,child custody,paternity,and divorce proceedings until after the service member is able to attend proceedings.



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39) In its holding that the SSCRA suspended the time for filing the claim notice, the court reasoned: "It is entirely immaterial what label or legal designation be applied to the notice of claim, whether it be called a statute of limitation, a condition precedent, or even a 'circumstance necessary to the creation of such right.
22) In one default divorce case under the SSCRA where both parties were in the military, the defendant husband retained counsel who failed to appear to defend the default.
The older SSCRA had been changed through numerous amendments and had undergone many judicial interpretations, causing difficulties in understanding and applying the law The 2003 legislation both changed the law's name so that it clearly encompasses all of the armed services, and settled many ambiguous provisions while incorporating recent court decisions.
 
 
 
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