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Exemption: State employees

Citation: Stat. - Md. Code Ann., [State Pers. & Pen.] § 21-502

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Md. Code Ann., [State Pers. & Pen.] § 21-502 :
Title 21. State Retirement and Pension System

Subtitle 5. Benefit Administration

� 21-502. Exemptions from execution; permissible assignments

(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person may not attach, execute, garnish, or otherwise seize any current or future benefit under this Division II or any money in a fund created under this Division II.

(2) A court of competent jurisdiction may expressly order that a benefit under this Division II be assigned in a decree or order of alimony, child support, or divorce, or in a court-approved property settlement incident to a court decree or order.

(b) An assignment under this section only applies to benefits paid after the Board of Trustees receives:

(1) written notice of the court decree or order; and

(2) any additional information that the Board of Trustees requires.

(c) The Board of Trustees is not liable for an improper payment to a person because the Board of Trustees did not receive written notice of a court decree or order.
Last Amended: 1994
1994
Added by Acts 1994, c. 6, � 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1994.
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