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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Qualified Domestic Relations Order (“QDRO”) is a judgment, decree, or order (including an approval of a property settlement agreement) that awards all or a portion of a participant’s benefits to an ...