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I divorced in 1994 after 10 years of marriage and had a QDRO drafted by an attorney who represented my wife and I (big mistake). The QDRO specifies that my wife is to receive 50% of my current pension benefit, reduced by the fraction: number of years married / number of years worked for the company. This gives her about 14% of my current pension value. The issue is that my pension is based on my 3 highest years salary and I earn significantly more money today than I did when I divorced in 1994. Additionally, in 2000 I quit the company but later returned to the same company in 2004 (10 years after the divorce). I never cashed-out my pension. At the time of my divorce, my income was about $70,000 per year and my lump sum pension estimate was $90,000 at age 65. In 2020, my salary is about $200,000 per year and my pension estimate is $1,400,000. Some of that increase related to salary and some is driven by low interest rates. Based on the QDRO calculation, my ex-wife would receive about $200,000. If the QDRO had based the calculation on my income at the time of divorce, my ex-wife would receive about $60,000. This seems completely unfair. My ex-wife is entitled to part of my pension as community property for the time period we were married. However, as written, the QDRO is allocating significant benefit to her for events that occurred 10+ years after our divorce. Additionally, since I left the company in 2000, that would seem to put an end to the QDRO drafted in 1994. I'd be willing to calculate her portion of the QDRO through 2000 because my income significantly increased after I left the company and subsequently returned. Unfortunately, since the QDRO specifically names my company's pension, and since I'm still getting that same company pension, my company plans to calculate my ex-wife's share of my pension based on the current pension value. Is this something I can take to the court and realistically get relief? Would California courts be willing to change the QDRO almost 30 years after it was drafted and make the distribution more applicable to the marriage time period by adjusting the salary portion of my pension calculation?