Common QDRO Mistakes To Avoid: Benefit Your Clients by Heading Off These Preparation and Implementation Mistakes

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Retirement assets are often the most substantial part of a marital estate, but there is a surprising lack of knowledge about how to divide such assets among divorcing parties and their lawyers, financial analysts and planners. This is one area of divorce practice where it is especially easy to make mistakes—and those errors often cannot be fixed once they are discovered. In this last installment of the series, we will address common errors related to drafting and implementing QDROs in general.


Emily W. McBurney

P.C.

Emily is an Atlanta attorney whose practice has been devoted exclusively to QDROs and the division of retirement assets in divorce cases for nearly 20 years. In addition, she is a popular speaker and is frequently invited to give presentations on this subject to legal and financial professional organizations nationwide. 

For more information, visit www.emilyqdro.com.

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