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Anti-Alienation Provisions Employee Benefits

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Terrorism law trumps anti-alienation rights under ERISA

The son of a man killed by a Colombian guerrilla group can obtain money from a 401(k) account connected to the perpetrators, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled, deciding that a terrorism law can trump the anti-alienation...more

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog

A Bad Deed is Not Entirely Unpunished

Richard Thomas embezzled nearly $20,000,000 from his employer. The employer then kept Thomas’s profit sharing account of about $21,000 as an offset against the embezzled amount. Of course, this violated ERISA’s...more

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