The Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and Civil Service Pensions and Collecting Child Support from Employee Benefit Plans, Second Edition
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The Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and Civil Service Pensions and Collecting Child Support from Employee Benefit Plans, Second Edition
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About the Book
A comprehensive resource for effectively handling QDROs and working with all of the parties involved in the process
Whether you work with Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs) frequently or only occasionally, The Complete QDRO Handbook is a must-have for your library. This comprehensive manual is an invaluable resource, providing basic knowledge and advanced techniques of all aspects of the substantive law of QDROs plus practical and valuable "how-to" guidance through all stages of the drafting and approval process.
Beginning with clear definitions of the basic principles and concepts of ERISA, the book explains how to draft domestic relations orders and have them accepted as "qualified" by plan administrators. It includes the necessary sample language and clauses, each explained with numerous comments, along with practical checklists. An accompanying diskette includes helpful model letters, forms, interrogatories, and checklists.
The book also explains the division of military and Federal civil service pensions, non-ERISA plans such as IRAs, and Qualified Medical Child Support Orders (QMCSOs). The author also discusses the goals and perspectives of the different constituencies involved in the QDRO process, including family law practitioners, plan administrators and their lawyers, state IV-D agencies, and family court judges.
The Complete QDRO Handbook thoroughly covers the issues relevant to the drafting and approval process, including how to counsel your clients on their legal rights; how to conduct effective discovery; how and where to obtain the information you need from pension plans - and how to interpret this data once you receive it; how to deal with plan administrators; and scores of hands-on tips and techniques for turning QDROs into a profitable aspect of your law practice.
QDROs can result in tremendous frustration, misunderstandings and friction for lawyers, clients and employee benefit plans. The Complete QDRO Handbook is a unique and essential "how to" manual filled with step-by-step, practical advice that will help resolve these conflicts so that effective, well-written and understandable QDROs can be approved with a minimum of expense and delay.
