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Perspective

Mar. 7, 2009

When Family Ties Come Undone

Employment law and family law can collide if divorced couples end up fighting over each others' employee benefits.

By James M. Nelson

One of the more challenging aspects of labor and employment law is that employers must manage employee benefit issues not only from the traditional tax-oriented benefits compliance perspective but also as a human resource issue. Benefit costs are a factor, as is addressing various plan design issues from an employment liability management perspective. From the employee side, the availability of health care coverage and the treatment of retirement plan...

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