Table of Contents:
  • Employee benefit plans and family support obligations
  • "Just enough ERISA" : core definitions and principles
  • Essential information and how to get it
  • Interim relief
  • Inclusion and valuation
  • How to divide deferred payment annuities
  • Assessing your client's needs and wishes : formulating a strategy
  • Drafting the DRO
  • From DRO to QDRO
  • QDRO litigation
  • Military retired pay
  • Federal civil service pension plans
  • Miscellaneous plans : IRAs, nonqualified plans, state and local pension plans, and QMCSOs
  • QDROs : from headache to profit center for your law practice
  • QDROs : from headache to enhanced employee benefit for plan administrators and their lawyers
  • Managing IV-D agencies to collect child support with QDROs
  • Family court judges and QDROs
  • Current trends and future developments in QDROs
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices.