Employee benefit plans and family support obligations -- "Just enough ERISA" : core definitions and principles -- Essential information and how to get it -- Interim relief -- Inclusion and valuation -- How to divide deferred payment annuities -- Assessing your client's needs and wishes : formulating a strategy -- Drafting the DRO -- From DRO to QDRO -- QDRO litigation -- Military retired pay -- Federal civil service pension plans -- Miscellaneous plans : IRAs, nonqualified plans, state and local pension plans, and QMCSOs -- QDROs : from headache to profit center for your law practice -- QDROs : from headache to enhanced employee benefit for plan administrators and their lawyers -- Managing IV-D agencies to collect child support with QDROs -- Family court judges and QDROs -- Current trends and future developments in QDROs