Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Bigelow

I concur in the judgment and in all of the majority opinion except that portion that analyzes whether the divorce judgment is a domestic relations order within the meaning of ERISA. The daughters contended in district court that the decedent’s father could not collaterally attack any term of the judgment including its incorporation of the stipulation. Affidavit of Karen L. Bigelow of Aug. 29, 2000, §§ 9,14. Although less clearly, the daughters make the same argument on appeal. See Appellees’ Br. at 15 (arguing that the *445Father “attempts to collaterally attack the Judgment and underlying…