Gemma v. Gemma

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court may modify or adjust division of pension benefits if it \specifically retains jurisdiction\
• requiring that a non-employee spouse wait until the employee spouse is first eligible to retire before requesting PERS benefits
• providing that the nonemployee spouse can receive his or her share of the retirement benefits upon the employee spouse's eligibility to retire
• stating that the time rule is one of two approaches used by courts in dividing retirement benefits and that the advantages of the rule “clearly outweigh any other method of pension division”
• stating that the time rule is one of two approaches used by courts in dividing retirement benefits and that the advantages of the rule \clearly outweigh any other method of pension division\
• noting that “early working periods are the building blocks to upward mobility and hopefully an increased salary” and “[w]hile no method is perfect, the advantages of the ‘time rule’ clearly outweigh any other method of pension division”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).