Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Trustees of Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension Benefits Plans v. Tise

255 F.3d 661

Type: Opinion
Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 2000-12-06
Topic: general

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approving distribution of pension plan proceeds pursuant to QDRO that awarded child support arrears and attorney’s fees incurred in enforcing prior child support order
"[B]y bringing the action, the plaintiff benefits all parties 'by promoting early litigation on the ownership of the fund, thus preventing dissipation.' "

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TR. OF DIR. GUILD OF AMERICA-PRODUCER v. TISE,255 F.3d 661(9th Cir. 2001)

TRUSTEES OF THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA-PRODUCER PENSION BENEFITS

PLANS, a collectively bargained, joint-trusteed labor-management trust,

Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Suzanne R. TISE, an individual, Defendant-Appellee,

Cybele Tise-Myers, an individual; Chloe Tise-Myers, an individual,

Defendants, and Yvonne Curry, an individual, Defendant-Appellant. Trustees

of the Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension Benefits Plans, a

collectively bargained, joint-trusteed labor-management trust,

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Suzanne R. Tise, an individual,

Defendant-Appellee, Cybele Tise-Myers, an individual; Chloe Tise-Myers, an

individual, Defendants, and Yvonne Curry, an individual,

Defendant-Appellee.

Nos. 96-16799, 96-16994.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Argued and Submitted July 6, 2000

Filed December 6, 2000

Amended June 22, 2001

Jeffrey W. Shopoff, San Francisco, California, for the plantiff-appellant.

Ronald Dean, Pacific Palisades, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Catherine A. Elin, Novato, California, for the defendant-appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California;Page 662Susan Illston, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-95-013310-SI.

Before: NOONAN, THOMAS and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

The opinion filed on December 6, 2000, shall be amended as follows:

At Slip Op. p. 15479, replace the first sentence of the third full paragraph with the following:

In response to this letter, Tise immediately returned to Superior Court, seeking a writ of execution against the Plan for the amount in which Myers was in arrears on his child support payments under the 1981 judgment, $209,985.34. Upon review of Tise's declarations, the Superior Court ordered the writ of execution to issue.

At Slip Op. p. 15494, replace the sentence beginning with "On its face, this order . . ." with the following:

Because it enforced Tise's right to child support payments as established by the 1981 Superior Court judgment against Myers, this order "related to the provision of child support" and was "made pursuant to a State domestic relations law."29 U.S.C. § 1056(d)(3)(B)(ii). Not only was the 1994 order a "domestic relations order" under ERISA, it also "recognize[d] the existence of [Tise's] right to receive all or a portion of the benefits payable with respect to" Myers.29 U.S.C. § 1056(d)(3)(B)(i)(I).

With the filing of this order amending the opinion, the panel has unanimously voted to deny Appellee Curry's petition for panel rehearing and petition for rehearing en banc.

The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc and no judge of the court has requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter en banc. Fed.R.App.P.35(f).

The petition for panel rehearing and the petition for rehearing en banc are denied.