DENNIS v. FIRE & POLICE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

No. 27, September Term, 2005.

890 A.2d 737 (2006)

390 Md. 639

Elmer DENNIS, et al. v. FIRE & POLICE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 18, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Marshall (Schlachman, Belasky & Weiner, P.A., on brief) of Baltimore, for petitioners.

Wendy Widmann (Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning & Widmann, P.C., Abraham M. Schwartz on brief) of Baltimore, for respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


RAKER, J.

Appellants, both former Baltimore City police officers, ask this Court to determine whether payments of deferred retirement option plan ("DROP") retirement benefits from the Baltimore City Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System ("the Retirement System") are "pension" payments within the meaning of the Qualified Domestic Relations Orders ("QDROs") entered in appellants' divorces, entitling the appellee spouses to a portion of the DROP payments in accordance...

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