Legal Opinion
Owens v. Automotive MacHinists Pension Trust
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 12, 2009No. 07-35253PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge PREGERSON; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
I. Introduction
For more than thirty years, Norma Owens (“Norma”) and Phillip R. Owens, Sr. (“Phillip”) maintained a “quasi-marital” relationship in the state of Washington. In 2004, Norma and Phillip separated. On August 19, 2005, the Superior Court of Eing County, Washington, issued a state court order (“Order”) awarding Norma a fifty-percent interest in the pension benefits being paid to Phillip by Automotive Machinist Pension Trust (“Automotive Trust” or “Trust”).
Automotive Trust declined to implement the Order on…
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