Add to ORKGIn most divorces today, the largest asset held by the divorcing couple is a retirement fund belonging to one of the spouses. Courts invery state must decide how to divide a married couple’s property in order to provide each spouse his or her proper share. But when there are no assets large enough to offset the value of the retirement pension, divorce courts must find a way to “equitably distribute” the proceeds of the plan. Dealing with this large asset presented problems in the past as Congress sought to limit the ability to assign proceeds of retirement plans to anyone who was not the named beneficiar
Although the equitable distribution of assets during a marital dissolution proceeding is governed by...
State marital property laws often entitle a nonemployee spouse to share in employee retirement benef...
A revocation-by-divorce statute essentially nullifies a devise in a divorced decedent\u27s will when...
There is now a helpful new guide for individuals who are going through a divorce and have questions ...
In 1980, the Pennsylvania state legislature adopted the reformed Divorce Code, which provides for no...
Divorce—Adjudication of Property Rights in Divorce Action (Johnson v. Johnson, Mont. 1960
The divorce rate in the United States is slightly more than one-half the marriage rate. Divorce is a...
Divorce law provides the framework that governs the circumstances under which a marriage may be brou...
The Hewlett Foundation on Dispute Resolution funded a small pilot project designed by the authors to...
Over the past ten years every writer venturing to discuss domestic relations must have been tempted ...
Petitioner-wife and respondent-husband were married a year after he entered the military service, an...
Default rules governing property distribution at divorce and death are often identified as one of th...
This Article examines whether the law forbidding division of certain federal pension benefits betwee...
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, retirement benefits cannot be assigned or alienat...
The New York court in Hirschfeld v. Hirschfeld held that under the state\u27s equitable distribution...
Although the equitable distribution of assets during a marital dissolution proceeding is governed by...
State marital property laws often entitle a nonemployee spouse to share in employee retirement benef...
A revocation-by-divorce statute essentially nullifies a devise in a divorced decedent\u27s will when...
There is now a helpful new guide for individuals who are going through a divorce and have questions ...
In 1980, the Pennsylvania state legislature adopted the reformed Divorce Code, which provides for no...
Divorce—Adjudication of Property Rights in Divorce Action (Johnson v. Johnson, Mont. 1960
The divorce rate in the United States is slightly more than one-half the marriage rate. Divorce is a...
Divorce law provides the framework that governs the circumstances under which a marriage may be brou...
The Hewlett Foundation on Dispute Resolution funded a small pilot project designed by the authors to...
Over the past ten years every writer venturing to discuss domestic relations must have been tempted ...
Petitioner-wife and respondent-husband were married a year after he entered the military service, an...
Default rules governing property distribution at divorce and death are often identified as one of th...
This Article examines whether the law forbidding division of certain federal pension benefits betwee...
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, retirement benefits cannot be assigned or alienat...
The New York court in Hirschfeld v. Hirschfeld held that under the state\u27s equitable distribution...
Although the equitable distribution of assets during a marital dissolution proceeding is governed by...
State marital property laws often entitle a nonemployee spouse to share in employee retirement benef...
A revocation-by-divorce statute essentially nullifies a devise in a divorced decedent\u27s will when...