Legal Opinion
Stone v. Stone
District Court, N.D. California
Decided April 18, 1978No. C-77-1124-CBRPublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF OPINION
RENFREW, District Judge.
The major issue in this lawsuit is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1381, preempts California community property laws to the extent that they require employee benefit plans subject to ERISA to pay part of a participant’s benefits to his 1 divorced spouse.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 1973, plaintiff Noel Zeona Stone (“Noel”) instituted divorce proceedings against her husband, defendant Ward Herbert Stone (“Ward”), in the California Superior Court for the County of Alameda in the…
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