
Husband retired from General Motors with thirty years and six months of credited service in August of 2009. The letter also stated that if the information did not “accurately reflect the intent of the parties, the Order should be amended accordingly.” The record reveals that the order was not amended following the receipt of the letter from the General Motors Pension Administrator. The letter from the Plan Administrator summarized the substantive portions of the QDRO, stating that Wife was entitled to a share of the early retirement and post-retirement benefits and that Wife would be designated as a surviving spouse, which would entitle her to a marital portion of the surviving spouse benefits. By letter dated February 28, 1997, the General Motors Pension Administration Center notified Wife, Husband, and Husband's attorney that the Amended QDRO was accepted. An Amended QDRO, dated December 5, 1996, was mailed to the Plan Administrator at General Motors on December 12, 1996. The August 1996 QDRO was rejected by the Plan Administrator.
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(“QDRO”) 1 was agreed to by the parties, approved and entered by the trial court, and submitted to the General Motors Plan Administrator. In August of 1996, fourteen months after the entry of the Final Decree of Divorce, a Qualified Domestic Relations Order The provision, as stated in the Final Decree of Divorce, reads: “That the Husband's Saturn 401k plan and the Saturn individual retirement account be divided equally between the parties and the General Motors retirement plan value earned during the marriage be divided equally between the parties.” The Final Decree of Divorce was entered by the Clerk & Master on June 23, 1995. The Final Decree of Divorce included a settlement agreement, which provided that Wife was to receive one-half of the value of Husband's General Motors Retirement Plan earned during the marriage. Stiel (“Wife”), which lasted fourteen years, ended in divorce in June 1995. We affirm the trial court in all respects. For her issue, the ex-wife contends the trial court erred in failing to grant her survivorship rights in the ex-husband's retirement benefits. The ex-husband, a General Motors retiree, contends the trial court erred in finding that his ex-wife was entitled to the marital portion of his early retirement supplements of his pension and in finding that her benefits are based on post-divorce increases to his pension benefits.

This post divorce appeal arises from the lack of symmetry between the parties' 1995 Final Divorce Decree and a 1996 Qualified Domestic Relations Order that was not entered into contemporaneously with the Divorce Decree. CLEMENT, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which PATRICIA J. Stiel, Jr.Mary Frances Lyle, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Susan M.

Helton II, Franklin, Tennessee, for the appellant, Anthony F. Supreme Court July 14, 2011.Published Pursuant to Tenn.

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