Linda Jean Cook (Ramsey) vs. Larry Dean Cook

In this post-divorce action, Linda Jean Cook (Ramsey) (“Wife”) requested the Trial Court to order her ex-husband, Larry Dean Cook, (“Husband”) to execute a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (“QDRO”) dividing his retirement plan according to the Property Settlement Agreement incorporated into the parties’ divorce decree more than ten years ago. The parties had previously drafted – and the Trial Court approved – several QDROs that were rejected by the plan’s administrator. Wife maintained that she was supposed to receive her one-third of the plan in shares of stock, which had appreciated considerably since the divorce. Husband asserted that Wife was entitled to a specific dollar amount instead. Following a trial, the Trial Court found that Wife’s portion of the plan was one-third of the cash value of the plan at the time of the divorce, and then awarded her an additional six-percent interest, for a total of $46,184.27. We find no error in the Trial Court’s judgment, and we affirm.