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Divorce is the formal legal dissolution of a marriage. The divorce process implicates many diverse areas of the law including, but not limited to, real estate, wills and trusts, child custody, and tax.

What If an Employee Doesn’t Tell You They Got Divorced?

Bricker Graydon LLP on 4/25/2025

When an employee forgets—or chooses not—to notify you of a divorce, it can cause a ripple effect on your benefit plan administration, particularly with your health plan. Here's what you need to know and do to keep your health...more

QDRO’s From The Plan Administrator’s Perspective

Woods Rogers on 1/18/2022

A qualified domestic relations order (“QDRO”) is a state domestic relations order that assigns to an alternate payee (such as a former spouse or a child) the right to receive all or a portion of benefits payable to a plan...more

The GAO Reviews QDROs

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 11/13/2020

In July 2020, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) prepared a report for the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs). QDROs are...more

GAO looks at QDROs

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 10/26/2020

I always talk about how plan sponsors need to work with experienced financial advisors, third party administration (TPA) firms, and ERISA attorneys on their plan needs. Like with reasonable fees, I believe that the term...more

The beneficiary form and the need for no drama

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 3/2/2020

As a plan sponsor, you need to make sure that participant beneficiary forms are up to date. It’s not enough that you make sure that every participant has filled one out, you also have to make sure that they’re updated. Family...more

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