United States Ninth Circuit

In an action in federal court seeking to interplead $500,000 in retirement pension funds formerly owned by a murder victim, the dismissal of the action is reversed where state courts had subject matter jurisdiction to decide that a state court issued domestic relations order was a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, as defined by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2010
• Published 07/22/2010

Judges

• Sidney R. Thomas

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Wray, Todd A. Bader