How are Retirement Plans Handled in a Divorce?
Download Our Free Family Law Guide- Retirement plans can be very difficult for lay persons to wrap their heads around.
- During the course of a long-term marriage, one spouse may acquire substantial retirement benefits through his or her long-term employment and be surprised to learn that they must share that asset with their spouse – even though they were the ones who earned that asset.
- Retirement assets are divided between the parties in a divorce, and are sometimes the couple’s most valuable asset.
- There will be some distribution, either in the form of a direct division or as a set-off against another asset.
- One spouse may have worked and earned that asset but, even if the other spouse didn’t work at all, it will have to be shared.
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