§4.11 California Public Employee or Federal Pension Requirements

California public employee retirement plans have provisions for division of pension rights. On the agreement of the nonemployee spouse, you must order the division of accumulated community property contributions and service credit as provided in the following or similar systems [FC §2610(a)(3)]:

• Public Employees' Retirement Law [GC §§20000 et seq.].
• County Employees' Retirement System [GC §§31685 et seq.].
• Judges' Retirement System [GC §§75050 et seq.].
• State Teachers' Retirement System Defined Benefit Program [Ed C §§22650 et seq.].
• State Teachers' Retirement System Cash Balance Benefit Program [Ed C §§27400 et seq.].

There are federal requirements for orders dividing federal civil service pensions [5 USC §8345(j)] and military pensions [10 USC §1408], which are beyond the scope of this course.