United States Ninth Circuit

An alternate payee who obtains a state judgment against an ERISA plan before the plan participant's benefits become payable due to retirement or death need not get an Qualified Domestic Relations Order prior to that date to qualify for payment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/06/2000
• Decided 12/06/2000
• Published 12/06/2000

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  NOONAN, THOMAS and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey W. Shopoff, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald Dean, Pacific Palisades, California, for the defendant-appellant., Catherine A. Elin, Novato, California, for the defendant-appellee.