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STONE v. STONE

No. C-77-1124-CBR.

450 F.Supp. 919 (1978)

Noel Zeona STONE, Plaintiff, v. Ward Herbert STONE, Seafarers International Union, Pacific District, Pacific Maritime Association Pension Plan, Does One through Five, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

April 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. Pedersen, Walnut Creek, Cal., for plaintiff.

Dennis Daniels, Ernst & Daniels, John Paul Jennings, Jennings, Gartland & Tilly, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Pension Plan.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

RENFREW, District Judge.

The major issue in this lawsuit is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1381, preempts California community property laws to the extent that they require employee benefit plans subject to ERISA to pay part of a participant's benefits to his1 divorced spouse.

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