Section 434.301

Title XXVIII CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS

Chapter 434

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   

  434.301.  Transfer or assignment of rights prohibited — moneys and rights not subject to legal process — pension assignee prohibited from evading prohibitions. — 1.  The right of any person to a plan benefit shall not be transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the moneys paid or payable or rights existing under a plan shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process.  This section shall not prohibit the division or assignability of a plan benefit that is expressly authorized by law that establishes the plan or that is specifically applicable to the plan, including division of benefits orders and any legal process in furtherance of the collection of either a judgment or administrative order for child support or spousal support.

  2.  A pension assignee shall not use any device, scheme, transfer, or other artifice to evade the applicability and prohibition of this section, including the deposit of such plan benefits into a joint account with a pension assignee or the authorization to a pension assignee under a power of attorney or other instrument or document to access an account or otherwise obtain funds from an account to which plan benefits have been deposited.

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(L. 2014 H.B. 1217)