QDRO Changed for Wife’s Greater Share 
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Published: February 14, 2012
Tags: Domestic Relations, Judge Robert P. Frank, Virginia Court of Appeals
The federal agency paying out wife’s share of husband’s federal pension did not conform to the parties’ intention that the cost of wife’s survivor benefit be deducted from her share after calculation of the gross payment, and the Court of Appeals upholds a trial court modification of the QDRO; but the appellate court reverses the ...
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