Patricia Jones (formerly Akers) v. W. Va. Public Employees Retirement System, etc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a legislative rule that became effective subsequent to the Board’s grant of disability retirement benefits was inapplicable
• finding that the Board’s duty is “to determine whether the QDRO meets specific statutory criteria”
• stating that because party’s proportional marital interest in retirement benefits had been established by the divorce decree, party could seek 3 enforcement of her right to the percentage posthumously
• “A family court has the necessary authority to posthumously enforce, revise, modify, or amend a domestic relations order for the purpose of establishing such order as a qualified domestic relations order.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).