Section 38.1685 - Award or order requiring withholding payments; limitations.
PUBLIC EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT BENEFIT PROTECTION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 100 of 2002
38.1685 Award or order requiring withholding payments; limitations.
Sec. 5.
If an award or order described in section 4 requires a retirement system to withhold payment of a retirement benefit or requires the retirement system to make payment or requires the individual to request that the retirement system make payment of a retirement benefit for the purposes of meeting the member's or retirant's obligations to a spouse, former spouse, or child, the withholding or payment provisions of the award or order are effective only against amounts that become payable to the member or retirant, unless otherwise provided in an eligible domestic relations order under the eligible domestic relations order act, 1991 PA 46, MCL 38.1701 to 38.1711. The 1imitations contained in this section do not apply to the accumulated contributions of a person who terminates employment before acquiring a vested member status.
History: 2002, Act 100, Imd. Eff. Mar. 27, 2002