United States Second Circuit

ERISA does not require "literal compliance" with respect to domestic relations orders entered prior to January 1, 1985, and here, the judgment was specific enough to substantially comply with ERISA requirements as a qualified domestic relations order, making it exempt from ERISA preemption.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2001
• Decided 03/08/2002
• Published 03/08/2002

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before: POOLER, SOTOMAYOR, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Chaim Jaffe, Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Lawler & Burstein, P.C., Syracuse, NY, for Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant Michael J. Bigelow., Robert J. Krzys, Amsterdam, NY, for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees, Tracy Bigelow and Sherri Bigelow Gallup.