B-195969: May 15, 1980

FOREIGN DIFFERENTIALS AND OVERSEAS ALLOWANCES - EDUCATION FOR DEPENDENTS - NEW APPOINTEE NEW APPOINTEE WAS HIRED FOR POSITION IN TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. CUSTODY OF HIS CHILDREN WAS DIVIDED EQUALLY BETWEEN EMPLOYEE AND HIS FORMER WIFE. TRANSPORTATION - DEPENDENTS - OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES - CHILDREN PARENTS DIVORCED EMPLOYEE'S TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES FOR MINOR CHILDREN WHOSE CUSTODY HAS...

B-195969: May 15, 1980

The issues presented relate to the allowability of travel and transportation expenses and education allowances for the children of an employee stationed outside the continental United States in the light of a divorce decree providing that custody of the children shall be divided equally between the employee and his former wife. Based on the facts of the case, GAO concluded that the employee, as a...