Smithberg v. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is an elementary principle of law that a court is vested with the inherent power to enforce its orders.”
• Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund statute contains an antialienation provision \like other statutes establishing public pension funds under the Code\
• the “survivor benefit ... has been held to be a ‘distinct property interest’ ”
• “Where a domestic relations order has been entered, the trial court retains jurisdiction to enforce its order [citation], as further performance by the parties is often contemplated.”
• marital settlement agreement created vested contingent right in survivor benefit
• “[w]hen a person has obtained money to which he is not entitled, under such circumstances that in equity and good conscience he ought not retain it, a constructive trust can 10 No. 1-10-0497 be imposed to avoid unjust enrichment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).