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CourtListener opinion 3208741

Citation: domestic relations order · Date unknown · US

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pending
Extracted reporter citation
domestic relations order
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pending
QDRO relevance 5/5Retirement relevance 5/5Family-law relevance 5/5gold label pending
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Machine-draft public headnote: CourtListener opinion 3208741 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.

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Category: pension / defined benefit issues

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pension

pursuant to a judgment of divorce that incorporated, but did not merge, the terms of a stipulated partial settlement agreement regarding the division of certain specified property, including the husband's New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System pension. In January 2011, shortly after the husband retired, the wife moved for entry of a domestic relations order (hereinafter DRO) awarding her a marital share of the husband's pension valued as of the date of his retirement – namely, September 28, 2010. The -2- 521952 husband cross-moved for entry of a different DRO awarding the wife a marital share of his pe

domestic relations order

pulated partial settlement agreement regarding the division of certain specified property, including the husband's New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System pension. In January 2011, shortly after the husband retired, the wife moved for entry of a domestic relations order (hereinafter DRO) awarding her a marital share of the husband's pension valued as of the date of his retirement – namely, September 28, 2010. The -2- 521952 husband cross-moved for entry of a different DRO awarding the wife a marital share of his pension valued as of the date of commencement of the divorce action, which was May 21, 1998. The difference in

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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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gold label pending
Jurisdiction metadata
US
Deterministic extraction
reporter: domestic relations order
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May 14, 2026

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Clean opinion text

State of New York
 Supreme Court, Appellate Division
 Third Judicial Department
Decided and Entered: June 2, 2016 521952
________________________________

SHERILYN F. VAN ORDEN,
 Respondent,
 v MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

RICHARD E. VAN ORDEN,
 Appellant.
________________________________

Calendar Date: April 20, 2016

Before: Lahtinen, J.P., McCarthy, Devine, Clark and Mulvey, JJ.

 __________

 Bailey, Kelleher & Johnson, PC, Albany (John W. Kraigenow
of counsel), for appellant.

 Cynthia Feathers, Glens Falls, for respondent.

 __________

McCarthy, J.

 Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Connolly, J.),
entered January 22, 2015 in Albany County, which, among other
things, denied defendant's motion to amend a prior domestic
relations order.

 Plaintiff (hereinafter the wife) and defendant (hereinafter
the husband) were divorced in December 1999 pursuant to a
judgment of divorce that incorporated, but did not merge, the
terms of a stipulated partial settlement agreement regarding the
division of certain specified property, including the husband's
New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System pension.
In January 2011, shortly after the husband retired, the wife
moved for entry of a domestic relations order (hereinafter DRO)
awarding her a marital share of the husband's pension valued as
of the date of his retirement – namely, September 28, 2010. The
 -2- 521952

husband cross-moved for entry of a different DRO awarding the
wife a marital share of his pension valued as of the date of
commencement of the divorce action, which was May 21, 1998. The
difference in the parties' interpretation of the proper DRO
related to their different interpretations of the provision in
the separation agreement related to the division of the husband's
pension. Eventually, this Court found that the terms of the
parties' settlement agreement entitled the wife to the marital
portion of the husband's pension \as valued at the time of the