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Old 07-03-2007, 01:31 PM
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dollydo
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Trop,

You are the owner of your IRA's, generally, the court will award the spouse a portion of the IRA, if, for example, she was a stay at home Mom taking care of the children, while he the breadwinner worked. Generally this only applies to long term marriages.

In my case, when I got divorced, he, my husband kept his IRA's and I kept mine. We both worked and invested our individual money into our IRA's, so, we each were entitled to our IRA's. Although his was larger than mine, it remained 100% his.

If I were in your exact situtation, I would move my IRA's and let them come after them, if it comes to that. There is no law that precludes you from doing this.

Just my two cents.
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