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CourtListener opinion 3015955

Date unknown · US

Extracted case name
pending
Extracted reporter citation
802 S.W.2d 546
Docket / number
pending
QDRO relevance 5/5Retirement relevance 5/5Family-law relevance 5/5gold label pending
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Category: pension / defined benefit issues

Evidence quotes

QDRO

Vantage Footwear, Inc., and Vantage Footwear, Inc. Said award shall be deemed a judgment lien against Respondent's interest in said plan and his interest in the stock of Vantage Footwear, Inc., which is held in or by said plan. Respondent shall execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order consistent with this Decree and the Court retains jurisdiction thereof. On February 7, 1990, the above language was modified, for reasons not in the record, on Ronald's motion to alter and amend the judgment. The only change of substance was the deletion of the last sentence requiring Ronald to execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). In an

pension

ree of Dissolution, which reads as follows: As and for her partial share of the parties' marital property, Petitioner [Susan] is awarded Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) to be paid to her by Respondent [Ronald], as her interest in Respondent's pension and profit sharing plan with Vantage Footwear, Inc., and Vantage Footwear, Inc. Said award shall be deemed a judgment lien against Respondent's interest in said plan and his interest in the stock of Vantage Footwear, Inc., which is held in or by said plan. Respondent shall execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order consistent with this Decree and th

domestic relations order

ootwear, Inc., and Vantage Footwear, Inc. Said award shall be deemed a judgment lien against Respondent's interest in said plan and his interest in the stock of Vantage Footwear, Inc., which is held in or by said plan. Respondent shall execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order consistent with this Decree and the Court retains jurisdiction thereof. On February 7, 1990, the above language was modified, for reasons not in the record, on Ronald's motion to alter and amend the judgment. The only change of substance was the deletion of the last sentence requiring Ronald to execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). In an

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: 802 S.W.2d 546
Generated at
May 14, 2026

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Clean opinion text

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 No. 95-1020
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In re: Ronald Ellis, *
 *
 Debtor. *
 *
_____________________________ *
 * Appeal from the United States
Susan Ellis, * District Court for the Eastern
 * District of Missouri.
 Appellee, *
 *
 v. *
 *
Ronald Ellis, *
 *
 Appellant. *

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 Submitted: May 18, 1995

 Filed: December 18, 1995
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Before BOWMAN, MAGILL, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

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BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

 Ronald Ellis appeals from the decision of the District Court
affirming the Bankruptcy Court's decision holding nondischargeable in
bankruptcy a $300,000 obligation Ronald owed to his former wife Susan Ellis
by virtue of a dissolution decree. We reverse.

 Susan and Ronald Ellis were divorced in November 1989. At issue here
is paragraph 1 of the attachment to the Ellises' Decree of Dissolution,
which reads as follows:
 As and for her partial share of the parties' marital
 property, Petitioner [Susan] is awarded Three Hundred Thousand
 Dollars ($300,000.00) to be paid to her by Respondent [Ronald],
 as her interest in Respondent's pension and profit sharing plan
 with Vantage Footwear, Inc., and Vantage Footwear, Inc. Said
 award shall be deemed a judgment lien against Respondent's
 interest in said plan and his interest in the stock of Vantage
 Footwear, Inc., which is held in or by said plan. Respondent
 shall execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order consistent
 with this Decree and the Court retains jurisdiction thereof.

On February 7, 1990, the above language was modified, for reasons not in
the record, on Ronald's motion to alter and amend the judgment. The only
change of substance was the deletion of the last sentence requiring Ronald
to execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO).

 In an opinion filed January 22, 1991, the Missouri Court of Appeals
found that the $300,000 award was not an abuse of discretion. Ellis v.
Ellis, 802 S.W.2d 546, 549 (Mo. Ct. App. 1991). The court of appeals
modified the award, at Ronald's request, so that $50,000 was to be paid to
Susan on July 1, 1991; thereafter, every six months, Ronald was to pay
Susan $50,000 plus interest \until the amount is paid in full.\" Id. The