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CourtListener opinion 1064474

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Category: pension / defined benefit issues

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QDRO

LLIAM COUNTY Leroy F. Millette, Jr., Judge Catherine S. Croft (Farrell & Croft, P.C., on briefs), for appellant. Joyce M. Henry-Schargorodski (Gaughan & Schargorodski, on brief), for appellee. Rita Kathleen Bradley (wife) appeals the circuit court's Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) entered on February 9, 2001. On appeal, wife contends the trial court erred by (1) limiting the scope of the survivor benefits awarded to wife and (2) requiring that for purposes of calculating the marital shares of Roger Wayne Bradley's (husband) defined benefit retirement plan, the plan ended upon the merger with a successor defined benefit r

retirement benefits

n February 9, 2001. On appeal, wife contends the trial court erred by (1) limiting the scope of the survivor benefits awarded to wife and (2) requiring that for purposes of calculating the marital shares of Roger Wayne Bradley's (husband) defined benefit retirement plan, the plan ended upon the merger with a successor defined benefit retirement plan. Wife asks that the QDRO be vacated. For the reasons that follow, we disagree and affirm the trial court's order. On appeal, we view the evidence and all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to appellee as the party prevailing below. See McGuire v. McGuire,

domestic relations order

TY Leroy F. Millette, Jr., Judge Catherine S. Croft (Farrell & Croft, P.C., on briefs), for appellant. Joyce M. Henry-Schargorodski (Gaughan & Schargorodski, on brief), for appellee. Rita Kathleen Bradley (wife) appeals the circuit court's Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) entered on February 9, 2001. On appeal, wife contends the trial court erred by (1) limiting the scope of the survivor benefits awarded to wife and (2) requiring that for purposes of calculating the marital shares of Roger Wayne Bradley's (husband) defined benefit retirement plan, the plan ended upon the merger with a successor defined benefit r

survivor benefits

han & Schargorodski, on brief), for appellee. Rita Kathleen Bradley (wife) appeals the circuit court's Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) entered on February 9, 2001. On appeal, wife contends the trial court erred by (1) limiting the scope of the survivor benefits awarded to wife and (2) requiring that for purposes of calculating the marital shares of Roger Wayne Bradley's (husband) defined benefit retirement plan, the plan ended upon the merger with a successor defined benefit retirement plan. Wife asks that the QDRO be vacated. For the reasons that follow, we disagree and affirm the trial court's order. On

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Clean opinion text

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present: Chief Judge Fitzpatrick, Judge Benton and
 Senior Judge Overton
Argued at Alexandria, Virginia

RITA KATHLEEN BRADLEY
 OPINION BY
v. Record No. 0628-01-4 JUDGE NELSON T. OVERTON
 OCTOBER 22, 2002
ROGER WAYNE BRADLEY

 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY
 Leroy F. Millette, Jr., Judge

 Catherine S. Croft (Farrell & Croft, P.C.,
 on briefs), for appellant.

 Joyce M. Henry-Schargorodski (Gaughan &
 Schargorodski, on brief), for appellee.

 Rita Kathleen Bradley (wife) appeals the circuit court's

Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) entered on February 9,

2001. On appeal, wife contends the trial court erred by (1)

limiting the scope of the survivor benefits awarded to wife and

(2) requiring that for purposes of calculating the marital

shares of Roger Wayne Bradley's (husband) defined benefit

retirement plan, the plan ended upon the merger with a successor

defined benefit retirement plan. Wife asks that the QDRO be

vacated. For the reasons that follow, we disagree and affirm the

trial court's order.

 On appeal, we view the evidence and all reasonable

inferences in the light most favorable to appellee as the party
 prevailing below. See McGuire v. McGuire, 10 Va. App. 248, 250,

391 S.E.2d 344, 346 (1990).

 BACKGROUND

 Husband and wife were divorced by final decree entered on

January 7, 2000. In the final decree husband's Oil, Chemical &

Atomic International Union (OCAW) defined benefit plan was

distributed as follows: 35% of the marital share was awarded to

wife and 65% to husband. The decree allowed wife to receive the

\OCAW defined benefit survivor benefit.\" The final decree also