§ 9-18-103 - Orders to reach public employees' retirement benefits.
9-18-103. Orders to reach public employees' retirement benefits.
(a) Notwithstanding 24-3-212 [repealed] and 24-7-715 or any other laws of Arkansas limiting the application of legal process to any retirement plans, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, the State Police Retirement System, the Arkansas State Highway Employees' Retirement System, the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System, and any other state-supported retirement system shall comply with any qualified domestic relations order as defined in this chapter.
(b) The boards of trustees of the retirement systems shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter and shall adopt a uniform legal form, as approved by the Legislative Council, for use in preparing qualified domestic relations orders for each retirement plan.