Payments with respect to a participant's plan benefit may be
made by the Trustee from the Trust Fund to one or more alternate payees
pursuant to the terms of a qualified domestic relations order. Upon
segregation of the assets payable to an alternate payee in an alternate
payee account or the payment of such benefits to the alternate payee,
any such amounts paid or segregated shall no longer constitute part
of the participant's plan benefit. No liability whatsoever shall be
incurred by the Committee, the Trustee, the employer, the administrative
service agency, the review committee or any financial organization
solely by reason of any act or omission undertaken in accordance with
this section to comply with the terms of a qualified domestic relations
order.
Subject to the discretion of the administrative service agency
or the Committee, no distribution of any plan benefit shall be permitted
in any period during which a purported qualified domestic relations
order claim, against all or part of such plan benefit, is being reviewed
in accordance with the provisions of § 50-11.8. If the administrative
service agency reasonably believes that a purported qualified domestic
relations order against all or part of any plan benefit is likely
to be asserted, the Committee may refuse to permit any distribution
of all or part of such plan benefit pending determination of such
claim.
