| 51. Divorce Source: PENSION FUNDS AND DISABILITY BENEFITS
The husbands firefighter pension fund was a property interest during the marriage, subject to equitable distribution, while his disability benefits were not subject to equitable distribution.
... 26.1%
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         | 52. Divorce Source: PENSION BENEFITS
Pension benefits are marital property subject to equitable distribution where the benefits are not forfeited at the termination of employment or are vested and payable either before or after the dissolution.
... 26.1%
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         | 53. Divorce Source: PENSION AND EARLY RETIREMENT BENEFITS
The couples QDRO transferred 50% of the husbands pension but did not include any language that would have granted the wife a share of the husbands early retirement benefits.
... 26.1%
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         | 54. Divorce Source: RETIREMENT FUND
The findings of the circuit court required reversal since consideration of the wife
... 26.1%
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         | 55. Divorce Source: PENSION VALUATION
The court found that the community interest in the pension was 87% $42,781.48. The wife was awarded one-half of the community interest.
... 26.1%
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         | 56. Divorce Source: PREMARITAL AGREEMENTS AND ERISA BENEFITS
(�1999) Generally, there is no public policy barring individuals from waiving property rights in an antenuptial agreement. In fact, many a court has stated that antenuptial agreements dealing with property division upon divorce are to be encouraged as a way of promoting marital harmony
... 26.1%
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         | 57. Divorce Source: PENSION SURVIVORSHIP BENEFITS
(�1999) When the husband retired, he discovered that federal regulations made the wife ineligible for the survivorship benefits because she had remarried before age 55. The husband and the wife both were unaware of this restriction when they made the agreement. When the wife was informed of this restrictio
... 26.1%
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         | 58. Divorce Source: DISTRIBUTION OF DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLAN
(�1999) The trial courts property division awarding the wife her unmatured pension and awarding the husband the marital home was not equitable and must be reconsidered.
... 26.1%
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         | 59. Divorce Source: PENSION PLAN
(�1999) An award to the wife of 60% of the portion of the husbands pension plan that the parties agreed was marital property was not an abuse of discretion.
... 26.1%
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         | 60. Divorce Source: RETIREMENT BENEFITS - VALUATION
(�1999) The trial court was found to have ignored other considerable factors: that the husband had spent a considerable period as a stay-at-home dad, which allowed his wife to pursue her medical career; that he had turned down several job offers in order to stay with the family; and that he moved with the f
... 26.1%
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