Rightfully Yours: How to Get Past-Due Child Support, Alimony, and Your Ex's Pension (Self-Counsel Legal Series)

Rightfully Yours: How to Get Past-Due Child Support, Alimony, and Your Ex's Pension will make available to you the most powerful tool in collecting past-due child support and alimony without wasting thousands of dollars in legal fees.

This book focuses on two important issues: how to secure your share of your ex-spouse's pension benefits earned during the marriage, and how to obtain past-due alimony and child support payments from your ex's pension, profit-sharing, or 401(k) savings plan. It explains the best-kept secret under U.S. federal law: The Qualified Domestic Relations Order. A QDRO is the legal document necessary to obtain direct payments from your ex's retirement plan(s).

It covers such topics as: What are the different types of QDRO's and why do I need one? How much of the pension am I entitled to receive and for how long? Is it too late to draft a QDRO now, even though my divorce was years ago? Can I use a QDRO to obtain past-due child support and alimony?

If you were awarded a portion of your ex-spouse's pension benefits of if your ex is currently delinquent in child support or alimony payments, this book will be an invaluable resource.

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

SHOULD BE ABOUT COLLECTING PENSION, 2006-07-25
I was disappointed with this book. I think it was advertised wrong. I bought it because I am trying to get past due child support. Well if the father works "under the table" this book is not going to do you any good. You should only buy this book if you trying to collect child support from someone with a career.


0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Great book for women, 2006-07-09
I disagree with the above woman's remarks. She obviously has "issues" that need to be dealt with. I don't see how her biases are opinions that relate to this book.

In anycase this is a very informative book for women. Most often attorneys do not have the time or forget that women may not be as informed or as educated in finances. Not stereotyping but stating that it is not a common practice for anyone for that matter to be educated in QDRO's or other divorce finanicals. This book helps those who are just getting a divorce or are close to settlement.

Good book. I agree with the opinions of the author of the book.


2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Very useful..., 2003-09-26
I picked this book up, not as a wronged custodial mother or first wife, but as a second wife, trying to anticipate ways that my husband's first wife might further try to take advantage of him. A great deal of press has been given to struggling mothers and downtrodden first wives, but no one pays any attention to the husbands who end up getting bled dry by their first wives. I found this book to be a great resource, not just for women looking to get what's "rightfully theirs", but also for men looking to protect what they've "rightfully earned" through hard work. I'm a social worker, so of course I agree that custodial parents should receive child support. But somehow, we've gotten the notion that women are automatically better parents simply because they're women and men are always abusive jerks. The only reason I don't give this book five stars is because Shulman seems to be cashing in on the pervading notion that all men are scum and deserve to be wrung dry. I happen to be married to wonderful guy who got taken to the cleaners and we're using this book to prevent him from being cleaned out. Having said this, I do recommend this book. It covers everything from military pensions, to retirement plans (QDROs), to railroad pensions and the information is very specific. I found it very informative.

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