Kansas Statutes 12-111a. Exemption of certain annuities, pensions and benefits of policemen and firemen from taxes and civil liability; exception, qualified domestic relations order
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 12-111a
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
Except as provided further, all annuities, pensions and benefits paid, which arise from services of a policeman or fireman, by a pension and benefit plan of a city of the first or second class under a charter ordinance related to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 13-14a01et seq. or Kan. Stat. Ann. § 14-10a01 et seq., and amendments thereto, are hereby made and declared exempt from any tax of the state of Kansas or any political subdivision or taxing body thereof and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment or attachment. Any pension benefit or annuity accruing to services of a policeman or fireman by a charter ordinance under this section shall not be exempt from claims of an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order. As used in this section, the terms “alternate payee” and “qualified domestic relations order” shall have the meaning ascribed to them in section 414(p) of the United States internal revenue code of 1954, as amended. The provisions of this section shall apply to any qualified domestic relations order which is in effect on or after July 1, 1994.