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CourtListener opinion 2002495

Date unknown · US

Extracted case name
JOAN ROHRBECK v. JOHN ROHRBECK
Extracted reporter citation
566 A.2d 767
Docket / number
pending
QDRO relevance 5/5Retirement relevance 5/5Family-law relevance 5/5gold label pending
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Machine-draft public headnote: CourtListener opinion 2002495 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

he Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered a judgment — a final, appealable judgment — on July 13, 1988. It has a broader import than that, however, and requires an examination of the nature and function of a device unknown to our courts before 1985 — the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). The precise issue before us, and the answer to it, will become more clear if we begin with a discussion of this recent addition to our jurisprudence. I. The QDRO In 1974, Congress passed ERISA — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829) — in order to provide better protection for beneficiaries of employe

pension

discussion of this recent addition to our jurisprudence. I. The QDRO In 1974, Congress passed ERISA — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829) — in order to provide better protection for beneficiaries of employee pension and welfare benefit plans abounding in the private workplace. ERISA imposed a number of requirements on these plans relating to reporting and disclosure, vesting, funding, discontinuance, and payment of benefits. These requirements were imposed through amendments to both the Federal labor code (Title 29 U.S.C.) and the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26 U.S.C.

ERISA

rts before 1985 — the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). The precise issue before us, and the answer to it, will become more clear if we begin with a discussion of this recent addition to our jurisprudence. I. The QDRO In 1974, Congress passed ERISA — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829) — in order to provide better protection for beneficiaries of employee pension and welfare benefit plans abounding in the private workplace. ERISA imposed a number of requirements on these plans relating to reporting and disclosure, vesting, funding, discontinuance, and payment

domestic relations order

Court for Montgomery County entered a judgment — a final, appealable judgment — on July 13, 1988. It has a broader import than that, however, and requires an examination of the nature and function of a device unknown to our courts before 1985 — the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). The precise issue before us, and the answer to it, will become more clear if we begin with a discussion of this recent addition to our jurisprudence. I. The QDRO In 1974, Congress passed ERISA — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829) — in order to provide better protection for beneficiaries of employe

Source and provenance

Source type
courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
Permissions posture
public
Generated status
machine draft public v0
Review status
gold label pending
Jurisdiction metadata
US
Deterministic extraction
reporter: 566 A.2d 767
Generated at
May 14, 2026

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Clean opinion text

318 Md. 28 (1989) 
 566 A.2d 767 
 JOAN ROHRBECK 
v. 
JOHN ROHRBECK. 
 No. 56, September Term, 1989. 
 Court of Appeals of Maryland. 
 December 6, 1989. 
 Bryan Renehan (Cynthia Callahan, Ellen L. Lee, Brodsky, Greenblatt & Renehan, Chartered, all on brief) Gaithersburg, for appellant. 
 Allen J. Kruger (Alan S. Town, both on brief) Laurel, for appellee. 
 Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, JJ., and ALAN M. WILNER, (Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, Specially Assigned). 
 ALAN M. WILNER, Judge, Specially Assigned. 
 This case turns on whether the Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered a judgment — a final, appealable judgment — on July 13, 1988. It has a broader import than that, however, and requires an examination of the nature and function of a device unknown to our courts before 1985 — the Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). The precise issue before us, and the answer to it, will become more clear if we begin with a discussion of this recent addition to our jurisprudence. 
 
 I. The QDRO 
 
 In 1974, Congress passed ERISA — the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-406, 88 Stat. 829) — in order to provide better protection for beneficiaries of employee pension and welfare benefit plans abounding in the private workplace. ERISA imposed a number of requirements on these plans relating to reporting and disclosure, vesting, funding, discontinuance, and payment of benefits. These requirements were imposed through amendments to both the Federal labor code (Title 29 U.S.C.) and the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26 U.S.C.). Some of the new statutory language was added to only one or the other of those codes; some was added to both codes to ensure that employers would not receive the tax benefits accorded by \qualified\" plans unless those plans met the requirements imposed principally as a matter of Federal labor policy.