United States Tenth Circuit

A state domestic relations order granting plaintiff survivor benefits in her former husband's pension plan was a "qualified domestic relations order" under ERISA, 29 U.S.C. section 1056(d)(3), and the order did not confer different or increased benefits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2003
• Published 04/23/2003

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, McKAY and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Hofmann (Mary Hurley Stuart with him on the briefs) of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellants., Daniel S. Hoffman of Hoffman Reilly Pozner & Williamson, LLP, Denver, CO (Mary J. Kelly of Mary J. Kelly, P.C., Denver, CO, with him on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.