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Learn about the attorneys at CTQ DROS, their experience in DWI and criminal defense, and how they support clients through complex legal challenges in Connecticut.
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About

Elizabeth L. McMahonThe Law Office of Elizabeth McMahon/ CTQDROs is a boutique law firm focused solely on the preparation of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders.  Given that we are neutral when we handle a file, we work with both parties and, if needed, their attorneys to draft an order that conforms to the judgment of divorce or legal separation.

Our involvement spans from drafting the QDRO, obtaining plan administrator pre-approval, circulating the order for party signatures, submitting it to the court, and serving the court-certified QDRO on the retirement plan administrator.

The CTQDROs staff has decades of experience and knows the status of every file. By the time a QDRO has been entered by the court and served on the plan administrator, each of us will have had a role in completing the QDRO process.

 

 

More About Attorney Elizabeth Lorion McMahon

Education:

  • Georgetown University, B.A. History
  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. Law

Awards:

  • Connecticut Bar Association Anthony V. DeMayo

Pro Bono Award 2015

  • Connecticut Bar Association Pro Bono Award 2008

QDRO Lectures:

  • In-Marriage QDROs (with George Baker of Brown, Paindiris & Scott LLP), Association of Divorce Financial Planners, April 2025
  • Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Overview and Complex Retirement Plans, Family Judges Lunch Meeting, February 2025
  • Considerations in Dividing Connecticut State Teachers’ and State Employees’ Pension Plans, Coll, November 2023
  • Defined Benefit Plan issues and Non-qualified Pensions, National Business Institute (NBI), March 2022
  • A Paralegal’s Guide to Divorce Cases – Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, NBI November, 2019:
  • Division of Retirement Assets: Connecticut Judges’ Institute, November 2018
  • Dividing Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plans- New Haven County Bar Association, May 2018
  • “Divorce and Distribution of Retirement Assets in Connecticut” Lawline.com, A Division of FurtherEd, Inc., NYC December 2017
  • Connecticut Bar Association, October 2017
  • Fairfield County Bar Association October 2017
  • Continuing Legal Education, Cheshire, CT December 2016
  • Litchfield County Bar Association Annual Law Day, April, 2015
  • Connecticut Judges’ Institute July, 2014
  • Fairfield County Bar Association, January 2008
  • Fairfield County Financial Planners September 2006
  • National Business Institute:  annually, with a few exceptions from 2003 – 2016