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Idaho Code § 55-1011

Exemption of pension money and retirement or profit-sharing benefits from legal processes

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re Oxford (2002)

Most recently applied in In re Acarregui (May 2017)

I.C., § 55-1201A, as added by 1988, ch. 358, § 1, p. 1060; am. and redesig. 1989, ch. 371, § 3, p. 933; am. 1999, ch. 337, § 1, p. 915.

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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any money or other assets payable to a participant or beneficiary from or any interest of any participant or beneficiary in, a retirement or profit-sharing plan that is qualified under sections 401(a), 403(a), 403(b), 408, 408A or 409 of the internal revenue code, as amended, is exempt from all claims of judgment creditors of the beneficiary or participant arising out of a negligent or otherwise wrongful act or omission of the beneficiary or participant resulting in monetary damages to the judgment creditor. The exemption provided by this subsection shall be in addition to that provided in this chapter.

(2) Any plan or arrangement described in subsection (1) of this section is not exempt from the claims of an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order. However, the interest of any alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order is exempt from all claims of any creditor, other than the department of health and welfare, or the alternate payee. As used in this subsection, the terms “alternate payee” and “qualified domestic relations order” have the meanings ascribed to them in section 414(p) of the internal revenue code of 1986.

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section apply to any proceeding that is filed on or after July 1, 1988.

Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.