Center for Access to QDROs
Our mission is to close the justice gap by providing access to high-quality QDRO products to nonprofit legal services organizations, self-help centers & qualified individuals in financial distress.
Grants obtained allow for the Center to provide FREE training, software, and mentoring.
Cutting Edge QDRO Technology
The Center has an exclusive license to use technology developed by QDROCounsel, LLC. With this software it is now possible to teach, train and support those organizations helping those in most need. Visit QDROCounsel
CLE Access for Non-Profit Legal Service Providers
Our primary goal is to increase the capacity among nonprofit legal service providers, court-based self-help centers, and other similar entities, to enable low and moderate-income individuals to claim their pension benefits in divorce.
Making Pensions in Divorce Accessible.
With training and mentoring for nonprofit legal service providers and court-based self-help centers, along with an exclusive license to drafting software, the Center for Access to QDROs is closing the justice gap to ensure that low and moderate income persons receive their entitlement to retirement assets in a divorce.
Goals and Outcomes with Grants Obtained
The goal is for grant participants to obtain funds for indigent persons
going through divorce. It is a mistaken notion that only people with money have retirement accounts. All too often, one of the parties in a divorce is employed having some sort of retirement account (e.g. 401k), but the other party is not aware of his/her rights to a portion of those assets or because of lack of access in the self-help centers and/or legal aid organizations is not able to obtain his/her marital or community interest in those funds because they need a QDRO!
Our Commitment
The Center is committed to changing the current paradigm so the most vulnerable can get the critical help needed to prepare a QDRO without having to worry about the cost. With funding from grants, QDROCounsel and donations, the Center for Access to QDROs is able to ensure that low-income litigants actually receive the retirement benefits to which they are entitled - safeguarding an income that will allow them to live their older years with dignity.
The Center lifts people out of poverty with money that an ex-spouse is entitled to by law! Current funding includes 2022 and 2023 funding from the Legal Aid Infrastructure & Innovation Grant from the California Access to Justice Commission. But we have tremendous demand for our services which requires increased funding! Please help us make a difference with corporate or individual giving!
As a non-profit organization, the Center for Access to QDROs (“the Center”) strives to maintain transparency and ethical practices in all our relationships, including those with for-profit corporations. In the interest of full disclosure, we would like to inform you of the financial relationship between the Center and QDROCounsel LLC, a legal technology company for retirement division (“QDROCounsel”). The Center has established a relationship with QDROCounsel in the form of a financial agreement. QDROCounsel has provided the Center with financial support by donating an exclusive license to use QDROCounsel’s technology and by providing the resources to support that technology. In exchange for this support, QDROCounsel receives recognition for its corporate social responsibly in closing the justice gap by providing access to high-quality QDRO products to nonprofit legal services organizations, self-help centers & qualified individuals in financial distress. The financial relationship with QDROCounsel does not compromise the integrity or independence of the Center’s non-profit's operations, programs, or decision-making processes. We adhere to our mission and values in all our activities, and we do not allow any donor, including QDROCounsel to influence our decisions or policies. The Center believes that our relationship with QDROCounsel is mutually beneficial, and it allows us to better serve our community and achieve our strategic goals.
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Center for Access to QDROs is a 501(c)(3) under federal tax guidelines.