Edie

Good afternoon. First Thank you all for answering my previous questions in 2019. However, I’ve returned since then with a new discovery on the topic. Previously, I questioned if my mother was entitled to my fathers NYCER pension after death without a DRO. Today, I would like to know If my mother is entitled to my fathers NYCER pension if she WAIVED her ALL her rights on the financial affidavit during there divorce? My mother signed her divorce decree stating,” she DIDNT want anything from my father”! The judge stated,” They both leave with what they own in there current possession! Any advise??

My apologies for interrupting a previous forum on another topic line. I am currently trying to find a resolution to a current problem. During the month of August 2018 my father passed away ,he was collecting his social security benefits as well as his full pension of which all began during 2003 and of course ended during his death of August 2018. He was employed by the city of New York as a New York City Hospital Police Officer. His retirement pension is through NYCER, "New York City Employee Retirement. My parents married in 1971 divorced in 2008. During August 2018 my mother was awarded a one time death benefit through my fathers pension retirement organization NYCER. Thereafter, she was informed she would receive my fathers annuity funds and informed my mother that she was listed as his primary and only benificuary to collect his pension. My mother was directed to complete some documents and to submit a death certificate. Thereafter, she was notified she was not elegiable to collect my fathers pension nor was she entitled to my fathers remaining annuity funds because there divorced. NYCER is requesting a DRO of which my mother does not have. There divorce was an uncontested divorce drawn up in the state of Florida by an attorney or my father who failed to include any and all of my fathers financial information regarding my fathers pension or his social security benefits he was collecting but remember my fathers pension is from New York City of which my mother resides in. Can any thing be done about this?? At this present time NYCER continues to send letters regarding my fathers Annuity funds which has not been disbursed accordingly and there is NO administrator of his estate. There are three surviving children including myself. Please advise. Thank you.

NYCER stands for " New York City Employees Retirement" my father was employed by the city, he was a New York City Hospital Police Officer and paid his union dues to Local Teamster 237. My parents married in 1971 divorced in 2008 neither remarried. My father began collecting his retirement in 2002-03 until he recently passed in August of 2018. The one time death benefits that my mother received came from NYCER my fathers employers retirement funds. NYCER has my mother listed as primary and only benificary as surviving spouse but was informed she was not entitled to his pension nor was she entitled to the remaining annuity funds in the amount of $7,000.00 of which is still sitting in his account. I hope I answered your questions and hope you can assist or guide us in this delicate matter. Thank you.

This is my first time on this site and I am not sure if I am actually in the right place to start a new forum with regards to QDRO in divorce cases and the disbursement of ones pension. My question is as followed: My parents were married for over 30+ yrs and are now divorced. My father left my mother as his primary and only benificuary for his pension during the early 1970's when he completed all documents per his retirement. He recently passed and my mother was awarded the one time death benefit and is currently collecting my father's Social Security benefit's but she was not awarded his pension nor his annuities. NYCER requested a QDRO of which there is none. In fact, I obtained there divorce decree and realized that upon there divorce my father did not complete an income work sheet which he is obligated to list his assets such as his Social Security Income and his pension as well as his property as a homeowner so that the judge would see what each individual is entitled to after they divorce. According to the laws of Florida of which my father had relocated to from NYC during his retirement, was supposed to list all of his assets/financial listing. In any event, there divorce was an uncontested divorce 2008 and the judge hand written, "Each parties shall lawfully retain all property real and personal that is currently in their possession" there is nothing stipulating anything as to his pension and if my mother should not receive it or not or am I in denial in what I am reading? However, prior to my fathers passing he stated, " He never changed his benificuary and my mother would receive everything because he left her as the primary and only benificuary? Please advise, Thank you.

This is my first time on this site and I am not sure if I am actually in the right place to start a new forum with regards to QDRO in divorce cases and the disbursement of ones pension. My question is as followed: My parents were married for over 30+ yrs and are now divorced. My father left my mother as his primary and only beneficiary for his pension during the early 1970's when he completed all documents per his retirement. He recently passed and my mother was awarded the one time death benefit and is currently collecting my father's Social Security benefit's but she was not awarded his pension nor his annuities. NYCER requested a QDRO of which there is none. In fact, I obtained there divorce decree and realized that upon there divorce my father did not complete an income work sheet which he is obligated to list his assets such as his Social Security Income and his pension as well as his property as a homeowner so that the judge would see what each individual is entitled to after they divorce. According to the laws of Florida of which my father had relocated to from NYC during his retirement, was supposed to list all of his assets/financial listing. In any event, there divorce was an uncontested divorce 2008 and the judge hand written, "Each parties shall lawfully retain all property real and personal that is currently in their possession" there is nothing stipulating anything as to his pension and if my mother should not receive it or not or am I in denial in what I am reading? However, prior to my fathers passing he stated, " He never changed his beneficiary and my mother would receive everything because he left her as the primary and only benificuary? Please advise, Thank you.