The Alaska Supreme Court ruled unmarried domestic partners have a right to some retirement benefits via a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO). The top Alaska court agreed with an earlier ruling ...

It always bums me out when the Tax Court makes a decision that is clearly correct, but totally unfair. Charles Hartley was in front of a Tax Court judge, because the IRS had penalized him for doing ...

Family law practitioners are used to stress, dealing as they do with fractured family relationships and clients’ often-raging emotions. But a single acronym can make even the hardiest attorney blanch: ...

Although Qualified Domestic Relations Orders are the vehicles by which most qualified retirement plans are distributed at the time of divorce, they are not the appropriate tool for distributing ...

When a marriage is good, it is one of life’s greatest blessings. Unfortunately, while the divorce rate has been declining many marriages still suffer this fate. One study estimated the number of ...

A key issue in separation, divorce, and other domestic relations proceedings is whether and how to divide a participant’s interest in a retirement plan. This is a recurrent issue in divorce ...