Legal Opinion
Elizabeth L. Rouse v. Daimlerchrysler Corporation Uaw Non-Contributory Plan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2002No. 01-1152PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.
In 1995, Elizabeth Rouse successfully petitioned Michigan’s Macomb County Circuit Court to retroactively modify her 1984 divorce settlement via a domestic relations order. The order gave Rouse survivor-ship-benefits in her deceased ex-husband’s pension. It also impacted the Daimler-Chrysler Corporation UAW Non-Contributory Plan’s (“the Plan”) obligations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).
The Plan removed Rouse’s case to federal court on the basis of federal-question jurisdiction. It contested the domestic relations order’s…
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