This is a Regional Trial Defense Team (RTDT) Information Paper on Responding to Financial Liability Investigations for Property Loss (FLIPLS) Memorandum. It srarts out with: If you have received an initial notice of potential financial liability to the Government for property loss, or a notice of determination of liability after the initial notice and a finding then by the Approving Authority of financial liability, then you have a right under AR 735-5 to file a rebuttal to the initial notice, or a request for reconsideration or appeal to a determination after your chance or time for rebuttal has passed and a determination of financial liability has been made. Time is of the essence in your action, and you have a right to consult with a Judge Advocate. Nothing herein is legal advice, and this memorandum does not replace the advice of a Judge Advocate. FLIPLS can be complicated, and this memorandum cannot address all of the different possible events occurring in a fact pattern supporting a FLIPL or multiple FLIPLS. And continues on from there.
NOTES: Some references listed in this doc might have been superseded and/or updated and should be checked for accuracy, which can be easily done using the DA PAM 25-30 web page or downloaded and installed program for checking current and superseded DOD publications (For example purposes only: FM 3-0 was superseded by ADP 3-0, on 10 October 2011) : This document is in PDF format
