Opinion ID: 1407729
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Heading: Formula for valuating community retirement benefits

Text: Gerhard's argues that the Gemma formula for valuating community retirement benefits is fatally flawed because it fails to apportion any passive appreciation of the sole and separate portion of Gerhard's retirement during the time of the marriage. Gerhard urges that such appreciation remains Gerhard's sole and separate property and must be deducted out before a community interest can be calculated. We conclude that the Gemma formula for determining community interest in retirement benefits is not fatally flawed and has been extensively relied upon by this court in deciding other cases. See, e.g., Sertic, 111 Nev. at 1195, 901 P.2d at 149; Fondi v. Fondi, 106 Nev. 856, 859, 802 P.2d 1264, 1266 (1990). No Nevada case has recognized that the passive appreciation to the community interest in one spouse's retirement constitutes that spouse's separate property. The only case which Gerhard cites to support his contention, White v. White, 521 N.W.2d 874 (Minn.Ct.App.1994), does not come from a community property jurisdiction. Accordingly, we decline Gerhard's request to revisit the formula set forth in Gemma.