Employee and Employer Contribution Separation
This plan likely includes:
- Traditional pretax employee contributions
- Roth after-tax employee contributions
- Employer contributions (matching or profit-sharing)
Each category needs to be addressed separately. For example, if the participant contributed to both Roth and traditional accounts, the QDRO should specify whether the alternate payee’s award comes proportionally from each or from one specific source. This affects how much the alternate payee may owe in taxes decades later.

