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03/12/2020

Apple, cherry, blueberry — Beware too much pie.

{2 minutes to read} In this article, instead of the usual technical details about QDROs, I thought I’d share some of the lighter sides of divorce. I was reading an article in Smithsonian Magazine last week, which suggested that the major cause of divorce is too much pie eating. The article quoted ...

02/18/2020

The danger in waiting to have the prepared is the potential loss of the money. https://bit.ly/2uWBHws

01/21/2020

Calculating what the alternate payee will receive from the deferred pension plan will now be more difficult. https://bit.ly/2NOtr7T

10/10/2019

A lot of divorcing couples stop after settling the monthly payment and ignore the death benefit options.

These are the major QDRO considerations, of which every divorcing couple needs to be aware, and also deal with, when working with pension plans.

09/12/2019

All issues can be handled, but sometimes it's more than the average person can do themselves.

{3 minutes to read} Why should you have a professional draft the QDRO instead of doing it yourself or, for that matter, having a general practice attorney do it? There are a lot of details that go into dividing up any kind of pension or retirement plan. Without a doubt, the most complicated aspect i...

07/30/2019

If you are owed money for child support, sometimes you can use a to collect. https://bit.ly/2K3OjXc

06/24/2019

If all of the money in the #401(k) was placed there after the marriage, no problem. But...

One of the most common problems in dividing up a retirement account as part of a divorce is where money was put into a typical 401(k) before the marriage.

05/23/2019

Divorce is not a requirement for having a signed by a judge.

{3 minutes to read} QDROs have long been associated with divorce, but couples who are happily married can also use a QDRO as a tax-planning or estate-planning tool. Wait, couples who are happily married? Yes, you read that correctly. There is no requirement that a couple actually gets divorced in or...

04/11/2019

How do you divide a earned in the US when you live and get divorced outside of the country? https://bit.ly/2VEFXc6

{2:30 minutes to read} What happens when you’re getting divorced in a foreign country? (And remember — Canada is not the 51st state.) Whether you’re getting divorced in Ontario, El Salvador, or some other foreign country, you’ve got a problem when it comes to dividing up pensions. The federa...

02/28/2019

The flexibility of for initially collecting is often overlooked by family law attorneys. https://bit.ly/2TkHsyk

Steven Abel discusses QDROs dealing with child support arrears. Steven Abel is an expert in the QDRO field and has drafted hundreds of QDROs for his clients and other mediators and attorneys.

01/30/2019

What are the two most important variables needed to determine a pension’s ? https://bit.ly/2MFwf5v

{4:00 minutes to read} When someone has a monthly pension, sometimes they would like to keep that pension for themselves and pay the other spouse the cash value. Trying to understand the cash value of a monthly pension is one of the trickiest aspects of divorce mediation and most definitely is not a...

01/11/2019

401(k) plans do not easily lend themselves to division pursuant to the .

{5:00 minutes to read} I recently received a draft separation agreement that talked about dividing a 401(k) plan, pursuant to the Majauskas Formula. The problem with this kind of language is that 401(k) plans do not easily lend themselves to division pursuant to the Majauskas Formula. To understand....