Brown v. Brown

We affirm the trial court’s Amended Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage *1044and reverse the court’s Qualified Domestic Relations Order. We find no abuse of discretion by the trial court in its distribution of the marital home, the husband’s employee savings plan, or his employee stock option plan. In the Qualified Domestic Relations Order, however, the court failed to provide sufficient terms for the distribution of the wife’s present interest in the pension plan.

A qualified domestic relations order as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 414(p) requires that the order must clearly specify (a) the name…