What Is The Process For Obtaining a QDRO Or DRO"?
Posted on Apr 7, 2014 6:10am PDT
Q. Teresa B. of Maryland asks: "What is the Process for Obtaining a QDRO or DRO?"
A. Spencer, from the QDRO Department of Pension Evaluators & QDROS
Of Troyan, Inc Associates Group replies: "You may contact us at or download forms from our website to provide us
the information and retainer required to provide you a QDRO, or DRO. After
we draft the appropriate order, we send it to you and/or your attorney(s)
as we are instructed. The attorney(s) should then review the order for
legal content, obtain the required signatures and enter it with the court.
After the order is entered with the court, the attorney or attorney's
client must send it to the plan administrator for qualification and implementation
by the plan administrator. If you have not received a written response
from the plan administrator within a reasonable time (usually 4 to 6 weeks)
regarding the qualification of the order, you should contact the plan
administrator for the status of the plan administrator's review of
the order.
Usually, we complete a proposed order within 1 to 2 weeks of receiving
all information from the parties which we need to draft an order. After
we have drafted an order it will usually take the parties 1 to 2 weeks
to review the order, obtain signatures, and enter it with the court. Finally,
the order must be reviewed by the plan administrator which usually takes
4 to 6 weeks. Based on the above time frames, the entire process usually
takes 6 to 10 weeks."
Spencer Olsen
Senior QDRO Writer
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