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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Distributions - QDROs Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Basics of QDROs and QMCSOs for Plan Sponsors (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Spousal Consent Requirements for Qualified Retirement Plans [Guidance Overview] Spouse Waived Right to Proceeds from 401(k) Plan of Former Spouse Who then Did Not Replace Named Beneficiary Ensure your Plan Participants are Prepared for a Secure Retirement Avoid the Common Mistakes Affecting Plan Loans Webcast When Divorce Unravels Retirement Plans [Guidance Overview] Creative Divorce Planning: Applying the QDROtic Equation Ex-Husband Not Liable for Retirement Account's Drop in Value, Says Court [Guidance Overview] Despite Phony Divorces, Pension Plan Must Pay Spousal Benefits [Guidance Overview] Fifth Circuit Agrees That Plan Administrator Cannot Revoke QDRO for Suspected Lack of Good Faith Divorce The 'Splitting' [Pension] Headaches of Late-Life Divorce [Guidance Overview] The Boundary of Fiduciary Responsibility [Guidance Overview] Think Your Employee's Divorce is a Sham to Get at Retirement Benefits? Don't Out-Think Yourself [Guidance Overview] 5th Circuit Affirms Decision in Continental Sham Divorces Case Determination of Pension Benefits [Guidance Overview] Tribal Court Domestic Relations Orders May Be Qualified DROs (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Orders Issued Under Tribal Law by Family Court of Navajo Nation Were Not DROs for ERISA Purposes [Opinion] Pension Rights Center and Other Organizations' Letter to Oklahoma State Senate Protesting Bill That Would Significantly Cut Spousal Protections for Former Military Spouses (PDF) [Guidance Overview] State Law Determines Whether a Tribal Court Domestic Relations Order Can Be a QDRO [Official Guidance] EBSA Advisory Opinion 2011-03A: Guidance Regarding the Applicability of Title I of ERISA The Effects of Marital Property Rights, Alimony, Child Support, and Domestic Relations Orders on Top-Hat Plans, Excess Benefit Plans, and Bonus Plans [Guidance Overview] Ninth Circuit: State Court Has Jurisdiction to Determine Whether Domestic Relations Order Was Qualified [Guidance Overview] Divorce After Retirement: Retirement Elections Can Be Carved in Stone (PDF) State Judges Can Rule on QDRO Cases [Guidance Overview] DOL Issues Final Regulations on the Timing and Order of QDROs (PDF) [Guidance Overview] DOL Final Regulations Clarifying Rights and Obligations on Obtaining Benefits Under Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (PDF) [Guidance Overview] DOL Final Regulations on Timing and Order of Domestic Relations Orders [Guidance Overview] DOL's Final Regulations Relating to Time and Order of QDROs (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Final DOL Regs on Timing Aspects of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, Per PPA 2006 (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Final Rule Relating to Time and Order of Issuance of Domestic Relations Orders (PDF) Chart of DOL's 2010 Regulatory Agenda for Employee Benefit Matters (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Final QDRO Regulation Expected Soon from DOL Battles Over Retirement Assets Increasingly the Most Contentious?and Error-Filled?Part of Divorce [Guidance Overview] Who is Entitled to Life Insurance Benefits and Top-Hat Benefits from an ERISA Plan Following Divorce or Marital Separation? [Guidance Overview] Who is Entitled to Life Insurance Benefits and Top-Hat Benefits from an ERISA Plan Following a Divorce or a Marital Separation? [Guidance Overview] State Courts Have Jurisdiction to Determine Whether a Domestic Relations Order Is Qualified [Guidance Overview] No Mention of Pension in Prenup Doesn't Entitle Wife to Benefits [Guidance Overview] State, Federal Courts Share ERISA QDRO Jurisdiction, According to Ruling [Official Guidance] Court Rules State and Federal Courts Have Concurrent Jurisdiction to Review Plan Administrator's Determination of Whether a Domestic Relations Order Is 'Qualified' for Purposes of ERISA [Guidance Overview] Pending Divorce Does Not Require Spousal Consent for SERP Payout, According to Ruling QDROs Can Be Particularly Problematic When Plan Assets Contain Employer Securities [Guidance Overview] Plan Administrator Cannot Consider Motivation for Participants' Divorces When Determining Status of QDRO [Opinion] Divorce and Pensions: Continental Style Judge Throws Out Continental's Suit Against Divorced Pilots [Opinion] Did a Unanimous Supreme Court Misread ERISA, Misread the Court's Precedents, Undermine Basic ERISA Principles, and Encourage Benefits Litigation? [Guidance Overview] No COBRA for Former Spouse Who Did Not Provide Timely Notice of Divorce [Guidance Overview] QDRO Cannot Override ERISA Rules for COBRA and Retirement Benefits [Opinion] Comments on Proposed Legislation in Oklahoma Relating to Treatment of Military Retired Pay at Time of Divorce (PDF) [Opinion] QDROs, the Drainville Decision, and Albert Feuer [Guidance Overview] Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Issues Continental Says Pilots Got Sham Divorces [Guidance Overview] AT&T Did not Improperly Delay QDRO Payment Divorce and Retirement: How to Take Control of Retirement Benefits (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Divorce and Retirement: Take Control of Retirement Benefits (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Feuer on the Kennedy Case [Guidance Overview] QDRO Awarding Pension Benefits to Domestic Partner in 'Quasi-Marital Relationship' Upheld on Appeal [Guidance Overview] Plan Administrator Properly Followed Plan Documents and Paid Ex-Spouse Despite Divorce Decree Waiver [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Clarifies That a Former Spouse's Benefits Are Governed by Plan's Express Terms [Guidance Overview] Order Awarding Pension Benefits After 30-Year 'Quasi-Marriage' Constituted a QDRO Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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