2019 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 9 - Retirement Systems
Chapter 18 - Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
Section 9-18-80. Termination of membership in retirement system; effect on qualified domestic relations order.

Universal Citation:
SC Code § 9-18-80 (2019)
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If a member terminates membership in a retirement system by withdrawal of contributions, the retirement system shall pay all or a portion of the amount withdrawn to any alternate payee as directed by a qualified domestic relations order. Any qualified domestic relations order previously accepted with respect to the member's benefits under that system is thereafter void. If the former member later resumes membership in the retirement system, no portion of any benefits subsequently payable on account of the member must be paid to the alternate payee, even if those benefits result in part from reinstatement of service credit initially credited during the marriage, unless the retirement system receives a qualified domestic relations order specifically requiring it to make the payments to the alternate payee.

HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 38, Section 1, eff July 1, 1995 (became law without the Governor's signature on April 27, 1995).

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