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Curtin Whitcombe LLC offers a range of QDRO services to assist parties in dividing their retirement plan benefits during and after a divorce. Each case is carefully reviewed, providing a professional assessment of the legal options based on the type of plan, the language in the Judgment for Dissolution of Marriage, and the client's goals.  

While clients navigate the divorce process, we explain their future retirement benefits, how these benefits can be divided, and important considerations for litigation or negotiating divorce terms. We also collaborate with family law attorneys to ensure that divorce judgments are accurately drafted for a fair division of retirement assets.

Curtin Whitcombe LLC provides essential QDRO services to family law attorneys, both pre-decree and post-decree, including: advising counsel on the divisibility of retirement plans, drafting or revising settlement agreement or judgment language, and creating the necessary orders to divide divorce retirement benefits for their clients. 

Additionally, Curtin Whitcombe LLC offers in-person and online training workshops for attorneys and firms looking to enhance their understanding of retirement plans and their division.

Curtin Whitcombe LLC also provides tracing services to clients and family law attorneys. If the parties have an interest in divorce retirement benefits, such as a 401(k) or other defined contribution plan, and the participant in the plan began their participation before the marriage, there may be a need for tracing and calculating the marital and non-marital portions of the plan. 

This type of tracing and calculation can also be essential to determine a post-decree non-marital interest in a plan. This may be necessary if the retirement plan has been rolled over into an IRA or another employer's plan after the parties' divorce but before the division of the plan, or if the plan has changed administrators since the divorce. Our QDRO services can assist in these complex situations.

Curtin Whitcombe LLC possesses extensive knowledge and experience in all areas of retirement plan benefits, including (but not limited to): public and private pensions (also known as defined benefit plans), defined contribution plans (such as 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) plans), non-qualified plans, Thrift Savings Plans (TSP), military pension benefits, federal, state, municipal, and local pension plans, union pension plans, cash balance plans, and railroad pensions. 

Curtin Whitcombe LLC is well-versed in the division of retirement plans for a variety of local and national employers and unions, including Abbott, AbbVie, ABT Electronics, Allstate, Aon, Baxter, Cement Masons Union, CDW, Exelon, Grainger, Hospira, IBEW, Northwestern, Pipefitters' Union, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Teamsters, and Walgreens. Additionally, we provide comprehensive QDRO services to assist family law attorneys in navigating divorce retirement benefits, as we work closely with major plan administrators such as Alight, Empower Retirement, Fidelity, LifeWorks, Morneau Shepell, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Principal Life Insurance Company, QDRO Consultants, Schwab Retirement, TIAA-CREF, Transamerica Retirement, Vanguard, Wells Fargo, and Willis Towers Watson.