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Effective – 28 Aug 2002

87.487. Fund subject to domestic relations order (Kansas City). — The provisions of section 87.485 to the contrary notwithstanding, a pension fund for firefighters located in a home rule city with a population of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county shall recognize a domestic relations order and pay pension benefits directly to a spouse or former spouse of a participant, if such domestic relations order assigns a spouse or former spouse all or a portion of a participant’s pension benefits payable by the pension fund, is properly entered in a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with the state’s domestic relation’s law and complies with the rules and procedures of the pension fund.

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(L. 2002 S.B. 1247)