82K for a judge in PA? Seems very low.
It was not her retirement account.
She was not an employee either.
It was a benefit set up by his employer and had certain conditions on it, which he knew about. He screwed up and lost his retirement account.
It was not her account ever. It was her husbands account and he lost it. she needs to sue him for whatever her “half” was.
He lost his pension, no different than if he had a big IRA and “gambled” it by investing in bad stocks. This is not the responsibility of the state, and the wife should be asking her husband to make up for it, not the state.
IMHO
A little different. Well, maybe a lot.
I once had a Staff Sergeant who was on the promotion list for Sergeant First Class. 16 years service.
He had an affair and his wife went to the Colonel. She wanted UCMJ brought against her hubby. The Colonel warned her that if charges were brought it could be very bad and that she would be better off filing for divorce and walking away with half of his salary and retirement. She demanded that charges be brought.
After the UCMJ the Sergeant was reduced in rank to buck Sergeant, which then put him over the retention control point and he was forced out of the service, without any retirement.
The wife was left with nothing. She should have listened to the Colonel.
His meds made him do it?? Were the meds Viagra?
That would depend on when he was vested wouldn’t it? If he had not yet fulfilled his required years to be vested, then no one is owed anything. If he is already vested, then she was owed money as of the vesting date.
She obviously wasn’t earning her share.
I’m of the opinion that they should go ahead and give her half to here. Lets see, 1/2 * $0 = $0
I would be OK with her getting all of it. I have no sympathy for men when they let the head without the brains do their thinking for them, especially when they abuse their positions of power in the process.