320 N.J. Super. 524 - Risoldi v. Risoldi’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
23 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Stern v. Stern · Dugan v. Dugan · 177 N.J. Super. 471 - Kikkert v. Kikkert · 180 N.J. Super. 210 - Amato v. Amato · Kikkert v. Kikkert
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]pplication of the coverture fraction, applied at the time the benefits convert to pay status at retirement, will assure defendant maintains the fruits of his post-divorce labor. When the denominator of the coverture fraction increases with the increasing number of years defendant is enrolled in the [retirement] plan, a lower coverture fraction is used to compute plaintiff's [deferred share].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is only to be used `when there are sufficient other marital assets against which to offset the non-pensioner's equitable distribution interest in the pension, or sufficient income available to facilitate a reasonable buy-out of the non-pensioner spouse's interest.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`a current valuation award of the appropriate share of the non-contingent portion of a pension and a deferred distribution of the share of the contingent benefits if and when they are paid to the employee spouse.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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