Dennis v. Fire & Police Employees' Retirement System

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing a “QDRO” with reference to a government-sponsored retirement plan exempt from ERISA
• “[T]he clear and unambiguous language of an agreement will not give away to what the parties thought that the agreement meant or intended it to mean”
• \[T]he clear and unambiguous language of an agreement will not give away to what the parties thought that the agreement meant or intended it to mean\
• “In interpreting the parties' agreement as embodied in a consent judgment, we have applied the ordinary principles of contract construction.”
• “[W]hen that language of the contract is plain and unambiguous there is no room for construction, and a court must presume that the parties meant what they expressed.” (quotation omitted)
• DROP payments are pension benefits for purposes of qualified domestic relations order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).