What happens to retirement assets in a divorce?
Marital retirement assets (which includes all vested and non-vested benefits, rights, and funds accrued during the marriage in retirement, pension, profit-sharing, annuity, deferred compensation, and insurance plans) are equally distributed between the parties. This is true regardless of whether they are held only in one party’s name. There are a number of different ways that these assets can be distributed depending on the circumstances of the particular case.
