Who Gets What?
A QDRO allows the court to recognize a spouse (called the “alternate payee”) as having a right to part of the participant’s retirement benefits. How that division is worded in the QDRO is critical—percentage-based language, dollar amounts, date-specific language, and stock investment concerns all come into play.
For a profit sharing plan like the Maine Pointe, LLC Profit Sharing Plan and Trust, the most common methods of division are:
- Percentage of account balance as of a specific date (e.g., 50% of the account as of the date of divorce)
- Specified dollar amount with earnings and losses from a certain date until transferred

