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CourtListener opinion 1065830
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Machine-draft headnote
Machine-draft public headnote: CourtListener opinion 1065830 is included in the LexyCorpus QDRO sample set as a public CourtListener opinion with relevance to pension / defined benefit issues. The current annotation is conservative: it identifies source provenance, relevance signals, and evidence quotes for attorney/agent retrieval. It is not a Willie-approved legal headnote yet.
Retrieval annotation
Draft retrieval summary: this opinion has QDRO relevance score 5/5, retirement-division score 5/5, and family-law score 5/5. Use the quoted text and full opinion below before relying on the case.
Category: pension / defined benefit issues
Evidence quotes
QDRO“mitting on brief. Charles Wayne Williams and Sonjia Lord Williams were divorced by entry of an amended final decree entered July 10, 1997, which awarded the wife 50% of the husband's pension benefits. To carry out that decree, the trial court entered a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) January 26, 1998. After the QDRO went into effect, the wife no longer received 50% of the benefits. She petitioned for clarification that she was entitled to half of the husband's retirement benefits and sought to have the husband found in contempt for failing to pay that amount to her. The trial court decreed that the wife was entitled to hal”
retirement benefits“decree, the trial court entered a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) January 26, 1998. After the QDRO went into effect, the wife no longer received 50% of the benefits. She petitioned for clarification that she was entitled to half of the husband's retirement benefits and sought to have the husband found in contempt for failing to pay that amount to her. The trial court decreed that the wife was entitled to half of all benefits and ordered the husband to pay all arrearages. The trial court did not hold the husband in contempt but amended the original amended final decree of July 10, 1997, nunc pro tunc, to order”
pension“B. Phillips; Phillips & Swanson, on brief), for appellee. Appellee submitting on brief. Charles Wayne Williams and Sonjia Lord Williams were divorced by entry of an amended final decree entered July 10, 1997, which awarded the wife 50% of the husband's pension benefits. To carry out that decree, the trial court entered a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) January 26, 1998. After the QDRO went into effect, the wife no longer received 50% of the benefits. She petitioned for clarification that she was entitled to half of the husband's retirement benefits and sought to have the husband found in contempt”
domestic relations order“brief. Charles Wayne Williams and Sonjia Lord Williams were divorced by entry of an amended final decree entered July 10, 1997, which awarded the wife 50% of the husband's pension benefits. To carry out that decree, the trial court entered a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) January 26, 1998. After the QDRO went into effect, the wife no longer received 50% of the benefits. She petitioned for clarification that she was entitled to half of the husband's retirement benefits and sought to have the husband found in contempt for failing to pay that amount to her. The trial court decreed that the wife was entitled to hal”
Source and provenance
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- courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
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- public
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- machine draft public v0
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- US
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- May 14, 2026
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Clean opinion text
COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA Present: Judges Coleman, Annunziata and Bumgardner CHARLES WAYNE WILLIAMS OPINION BY v. Record No. 1297-99-3 JUDGE RUDOLPH BUMGARDNER, III MARCH 28, 2000 SONJIA LORD WILLIAMS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROANOKE COUNTY Diane McQ. Strickland, Judge (Barry M. Tatel; Neil E. McNally; Key, Tatel & McNally, on brief), for appellant. Appellant submitting on brief. (Charles B. Phillips; Phillips & Swanson, on brief), for appellee. Appellee submitting on brief. Charles Wayne Williams and Sonjia Lord Williams were divorced by entry of an amended final decree entered July 10, 1997, which awarded the wife 50% of the husband's pension benefits. To carry out that decree, the trial court entered a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) January 26, 1998. After the QDRO went into effect, the wife no longer received 50% of the benefits. She petitioned for clarification that she was entitled to half of the husband's retirement benefits and sought to have the husband found in contempt for failing to pay that amount to her. The trial court decreed that the wife was entitled to half of all benefits and ordered the husband to pay all arrearages. The trial court did not hold the husband in contempt but amended the original amended final decree of July 10, 1997, nunc pro tunc, to order him to pay the balance not paid directly by the pension administrator. The husband argues on appeal that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to modify substantively the amended final decree. The husband also argues that the trial court erroneously applied Code § 8.01-428(B) and erred in considering certain exhibits. For the following reasons, we affirm. The trial court first entered a final decree of divorce on April 22, 1997. That decree adjudicated spousal support, the husband's pension, and the proceeds from settlement of the husband's personal injury claim against his employer. Both parties objected to portions of that final decree, and the husband appealed. Pending the appeal, the parties negotiated a settlement and submitted it to the trial court. When the trial court incorporated the agreement into an amended final decree, the husband withdrew his appeal. Under the amended final decree, the wife waived spousal support and any interest in the husband's personal injury settlement. She received 50% of all future pension payments paid to the husband beginning July 1, 1997. The trial court ordered the husband to pay half of his pension benefits directly to the wife during the interim between the entry of the amended order and the processing of a QDRO. The trial court ordered the - 2 - wife to prepare a QDRO directing the plan administrator to pay to her \fifty percent (50%) of each pension payment paid to