147 Md. App. 672 - Leadroot v. Leadroot’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Regardless of what [the husband] chooses to call it, the circuit court did in fact revise the fraction used to compute the marital portion of [the husband’s] pension benefits. It did so to correct what it believed to be a “mutual mistake by the parties.” A clarification does not modify; it illuminates. And the circuit court, here, was engaged in more than simply illuminating the fraction at issue; it significantly altered that fraction so that it conformed with what the circuit court believed to be the parties’ expectations. * * Jjs No distinction was made between redeemed and unredeemed months in computing the marital portion of [the husband’s] pension benefits in 1993, when the QDRO was first issued, or in 2001, when it was re-issued as a separate order, after [the husband] repurchased his four years of service. Nor can we do so now without revising the parties’ QDRO. To now qualify a term, which was left unqualified both in 1998 and in 2001, plainly constitutes a “revision.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 168 Md. App. 96 - Eller v. Bolton