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Alternate payee fails to inform plan administrator of remarriage, which was to terminate immediately upon her death, her remarriage, or the participant's death. She remarried in 2002. Her new husband died in 2005. She married him in secret, across the Country as to not raise any flags. We accidentally found out she was married last year. We alerted the pension plans of the modified fraudulent and terminated QDRO. THE JUDGE TERMINATED THE SPOUSAL SUPPORT AS OF 6-5-2002. The plans are telling us good luck with our problem. After all, how would they know if she remarried. She had different lies to different people. She move d 6 times over the past 16 years and never once did she update her marital status. The one plan cut her off on May 1, 2018. The other is still paying her. We get nothing and she is cozy and well off due to her deceased husband's NFL and University PROFESSOR'S pension, along with his SSA. We did find out she changed her SSA over to his. He had a substantial career being he was 82 when they married. OUR QUESTION What are our possible remedies? The plans are not claiming liability. The Inspector General is also involved. Do we have her arrested for the abuse of an elder, blind and dementia suffering person? Can the plans recover her over-payment and return it to us? Is there insurance that protects either plan or the payee? HELP!! THANKS