QDRO Math: Advice to Plan Administrators in Florida.

The article provide advice to plan administrators in Florida on protecting retirement fund assets. Topics discussed include the provisions under the Employee's Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the increase in the incidence of abandonment of family members and divorce during the 1970s, and costs associated with optional forms of benefits and survivor rights which became the qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) math needed to divide benefits pursuant to divorce.