Section 21290 Of Article 2. Community Property From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 13. >> Article 2.
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. (a) Upon the legal separation or dissolution of marriage of
a member, the court shall include in the judgment or a court order
the date on which the parties separated.
(b) If the community property is divided in accordance with
paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 2610 of the Family Code,
the court shall order that the accumulated contributions and service
credit attributable to periods of service during the marriage be
divided into two separate and distinct accounts in the name of the
member and the nonmember, respectively. Any service credit or
accumulated contributions that are not explicitly awarded by the
judgment or court order shall be deemed the exclusive property of the
member.
(c) The court shall address the rights of the nonmember to the
following:
(1) The right to a retirement allowance, and the consequent right
to elect an optional settlement and designate a beneficiary.
(2) The right to a refund of accumulated contributions.
(3) The right to redeposit accumulated contributions that are
eligible for redeposit by the member under Sections 20750 and 20752.
(4) The right to purchase service credit that is eligible for
purchase by the member under Article 4 (commencing with Section
20990) and Article 5 (commencing with Section 21020) of Chapter 11.
(5) The right to designate a beneficiary to receive his or her
accumulated contributions payable where death occurs prior to
retirement.
(6) The right to designate a beneficiary for any unpaid allowance
payable at the time of the nonmember's death.
(7) The right to elect coverage in the Second Tier for that member
service that is subject to the Second Tier, provided that the
election is made within one year of the establishment of the
nonmember account or prior to the nonmember's retirement, whichever
occurs first. Immediately upon establishment of a nonmember account,
the board shall provide, by certified mail, the necessary form and
information so that the election may be made.
(d) In the capacity of nonmember, he or she shall not be entitled
to any disability or industrial disability retirement allowance, any
basic death benefit, any special death benefit, any monthly allowance
for survivors of a member or retired person, any insurance benefit,
or retired member lump-sum death benefit. No survivor continuance
allowance shall be payable to a survivor of a nonmember.
(e) (1) A nonmember whose account is credited with service subject
to the Second Tier benefits provided in Section 21076 or 21077 may
make an irrevocable election, to be filed with the board, to have his
or her Second Tier service credited under Section 21354.1, if the
following conditions are met:
(A) The member is employed by the state on or after January 1,
2000.
(B) If eligible, the member has made the election provided in
subdivision (a) of Section 21073.7 at the time of the nonmember's
election.
(2) An election under this subdivision shall be effective the
first of the month following the date the election is received by the
system. An election under this subdivision may be made at any time
prior to the retirement of the nonmember or prior to payment of a
refund of the accumulated contributions in the separate account of
the nonmember. A nonmember who makes the election under this
subdivision shall make the contributions specified in Section
21073.1.
(3) The term "member" as used in this subdivision means the person
from whose account the Second Tier service that is credited to the
separate account of the nonmember was derived.