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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 10:10:08+00:00

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Complete state of Oklahoma bankruptcy exemptions laws which protect a debtor’s property when personal bankruptcy is filed.
§31-1. Property exempt from attachment, execution or other forced sale – Bankruptcy proceedings.
24. Any interest in an Oklahoma College Savings Plan account established pursuant to the provisions of Section 3970.1 et seq. of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
B. No natural person residing in this state may exempt from the property of the estate in any bankruptcy proceeding the property specified in subsection (d) of Section 522 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, Public Law 95-598, 11 U.S.C.A. 101 et seq., except as may otherwise be expressly permitted under this title or other statutes of this state.
§31-2. Homestead – Area and value – Indian allottees – Temporary renting.
A. The homestead of any person in this state, not within any city or town, shall consist of not more than one hundred sixty (160) acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels, to be selected by the owner.
B. Effective November 1, 1997, the homestead of any person in this state, not within any city or town, annexed by a city or town on or after November 1, 1997, owned and occupied and used for both residential and commercial agricultural purposes shall consist of not more than one hundred sixty (160) acres of land, which may be in one or more parcels, to be selected by the owner.
C. The homestead of any person within any city or town, owned and occupied as a residence only, or used for both residential and business purposes, shall consist of not exceeding one (1) acre of land, to be selected by the owner. For purposes of this subsection, at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the total square foot area of the improvements for which a homestead exemption is claimed must be used as the principal residence in order to qualify for the exemption. If more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total square foot area of the improvements for which a homestead exemption is claimed is used for business purposes, the homestead exemption amount shall not exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).
D. Nothing in the laws of the United States, or any treaties with the Indian tribes in the state, shall deprive any Indian or other allottee of the benefit of the homestead and exemption laws of the state.
E. Any temporary renting of the homestead shall not change the character of the same, when no other homestead has been acquired.
§31-1.1. Earnings from personal services – Exemption from process – Order.
A. Following the issuance of an execution, attachment, or garnishment, except process to collect a judgment or order for child support or maintenance of children or in cases in which the court has limited or reduced the application of this section pursuant to Section 142.18 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the debtor may file with the court an application requesting a hearing to exempt from such process by reason of undue hardship that portion of any earnings from personal services necessary for the maintenance of a family or other dependents supported wholly or partially by the labor of the debtor. A debtor with no family or other dependents may not claim an exemption under this section. A hearing on the application shall be set and conducted in the manner provided by Section 1172.2 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes and subsection C of Section 1174 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
2. In the case of a continuing earnings garnishment pursuant to Section 1173.4 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes, exempt all or a portion of the personal earnings withheld within the thirty (30) days preceding the filing of the claim for exemption or modify or stay the garnishment for a period of time not to exceed the remainder of the term of the garnishment.
§11-49-126. Pensions and allowances exempt from claims – Assignments or transfers void – Exceptions.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no portion of said pension shall, either before or after its order of distribution by the State Board to such disabled members of said fire department, or the surviving spouse, alternate payee as defined in subsection B of this section, or guardian of such minor child or children, to the deceased or retired member of such department, be held, seized, taken, subjected to or detained or levied on by virtue of any attachment, execution, injunction, writ interlocutory or other order or decree, or any process or proceeding whatever, issued out of or by any court of this state for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, damages, claim, demand or judgment against such member, or his or her surviving spouse, alternate payee, or the guardian of said minor child or children of any deceased member, nor shall said fund or any claim thereto be directly or indirectly assigned and any attempt to assign or transfer the same shall be void; but the funds shall be held, kept, secured and distributed for the purpose of pensioning the persons named in this article, and for no other purpose whatever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective August 5, 1997, the State Board may approve any offset of a member’s benefit to pay a judgment or settlement against a member for a crime involving the System, for a breach of the member’s fiduciary duty to the System, or for funds or monies incorrectly paid to a member or beneficiary by mistake, provided such offset is in accordance with the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply to a qualified domestic order as provided pursuant to this subsection.
2. The term “qualified domestic order” means an order issued by a district court of this state pursuant to the domestic relation laws of this state which relates to the provision of marital property rights to an alternate payee and which creates or recognizes the existence of the right of an alternate payee and assigns to an alternate payee the right to receive a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a member of the System.
3. The term “alternate payee” means any spouse, former spouse, minor or disabled child or children, or other dependent of the member who is recognized by a domestic relations order as having a right to receive benefits payable with respect to a member of the System.
4. For purposes of the payment of marital property, to qualify as an alternate payee, a spouse or former spouse must have been married to the related member for a period of not less than thirty (30) continuous months immediately preceding the commencement of the proceedings from which the qualified domestic order issues.
5. A qualified domestic order is valid and binding on the State Board and the related member only if it meets the requirements of this subsection.
e. each plan to which such order applies.
c. does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee pursuant to another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic order or an order recognized by the System as a valid order prior to the effective date of this act.
8. A qualified domestic order shall not require payment of benefits to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement date of the related member.
9. The alternate payee shall have a right to receive benefits payable to a member of the System under the Oklahoma Firefighters Deferred Option plan provided for pursuant to Section 49-106.1 of this title, but only to the extent such benefits have been credited or paid into the member’s Oklahoma Firefighters Deferred Option Plan account during the term of the marriage.
10. The obligation of the System to pay an alternate payee pursuant to a qualified domestic order shall cease upon the earlier of the death of the related member or the death of the alternate payee. Upon the death of the alternate payee, the assignment to the alternate payee of the right to receive a portion of the benefits payable with respect to the member shall cease and the payments of benefits to the member shall be reinstated.
11. This subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A. Section 1001, et seq., as amended from time to time, or rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and court cases interpreting said act.
12. The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement Board shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
13. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order must fully comply with all provisions of the rules promulgated by the State Board pursuant to this subsection in order to continue receiving his or her benefit.
C. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply to a Child Support Enforcement Division order for a support arrearage pursuant to Section 240.23 of Title 56 of the Oklahoma Statutes and current child support payments made pursuant to a valid court order.
D. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply to a federal tax levy made pursuant to Section 6331 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the collection by the United States on a judgment resulting from an unpaid tax assessment.
§11-50-124. Exemption of System funds from legal process – Assignment or transfer void – Exception of qualified domestic orders – Offset for offenses involving the System.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no portion of any of the funds of the System shall, either before or after any order made by the State Board for payment to any person entitled to a pension or allowance, be held, seized, taken, subjected to, or detained, or levied on by virtue of any garnishment, attachment, execution, injunction, or other order or decree or any process or proceeding whatever, issued out of or by any court of this state for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, damage, claim, demand or judgment against any such person entitled to payment, nor shall said payments or any claim thereto be directly or indirectly assigned, and any attempt to assign or transfer the same shall be void. The said funds shall be held, invested, secured and distributed for the purposes named in this article, and for no other purpose whatever.
2. The term “qualified domestic order” means an order issued by a district court of this state pursuant to the domestic relation laws of the State of Oklahoma which relates to the provision of marital property rights to a spouse or former spouse of a member or provision of support for a minor child or children and which creates or recognizes the existence of the right of an alternate payee, or assigns to an alternate payee the right, to receive a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a member of the System.
3. For purposes of the payment of marital property, to qualify as an alternate payee, a spouse or former spouse must have been married to the related member for a period of not less than thirty (30) continuous months immediately preceding the commencement of the proceedings from which the qualified domestic order issues.
4. A qualified domestic order is valid and binding on the State Board and the related member only if it meets the requirements of this subsection.
(e) each plan to which such order applies.
(c) does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee pursuant to another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic order or an order recognized by the System as a valid order prior to the effective date of this act.
7. A qualified domestic order shall not require payment of benefits to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement date of the related member.
8. The obligation of the System to pay an alternate payee pursuant to a qualified domestic order shall cease upon the death of the related member.
9. This subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A. Section 1001, et seq., as amended from time to time, or rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and court cases interpreting said act.
10. The Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement Board shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
11. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order must fully comply with all provisions of the rules promulgated by the State Board pursuant to this subsection in order to continue receiving his or her benefit.
C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, effective August 5, 1997, the State Board may approve any offset of a member’s benefit to pay a judgment or settlement against the member for a crime involving the System or for a breach of the member’s fiduciary duty to the System, provided such offset is in accordance with the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
§12 1171.1. Money earned from prejudgment garnishment Exemption.
A. Money that was earned by a natural person as wages, salary, bonus or commission for personal services shall be exempt from garnishment issued before judgment of the trial court except as provided for support in a divorce proceeding interlocutory order pursuant to this title, and as otherwise specifically provided by statute.
B. Seventy five percent (75%) of all earnings for personal or professional services earned during the last ninety (90) days shall be exempt from garnishment except for collection of child support obligations.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, sums of money due or to become due to any employee or retired employee shall not be liable to attachment, garnishment, levy, or seizure in any manner under any legal or equitable process, whether such sums remain in the hands of the treasurer of the retirement system or of any official or agent of the Board of Trustees of any retirement system, or are in the course of transmission to the employee or retired employee entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly to the benefit of such employee or retired employee.
1. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not apply to a qualified domestic order as provided in this subsection.
2. The term “qualified domestic order” means an order issued by a district court of this state, pursuant to the domestic relations laws of the State of Oklahoma, which relates to the provision of marital property rights to a spouse or former spouse of a member of a retirement system authorized by Section 951 et seq. of this title, or to the provision of support for a minor child or children, and which creates or recognizes the existence of the right of an alternate payee, or assigns to an alternate payee the right, to receive a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a member and amounts payable to a plan participant of any retirement system authorized by Section 951 et seq. of this title.
4. A qualified domestic order is valid and binding on the Board of Trustees and the related member only if it meets the requirements of this subsection.
c. does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee pursuant to another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic order or an order recognized by the retirement plan as a valid order prior to the effective date of this section.
7. A qualified domestic order shall not require payment of benefits to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement date or withdrawal of the related member.
8. The obligation of the retirement system to pay an alternate payee pursuant to a qualified domestic order shall cease upon the death of the related member.
9. This subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A., Section 1001 et seq., as amended from time to time, or rules promulgated thereunder, and court cases interpreting said act.
10. The Board of Trustees may adopt such provisions as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
11. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order shall fully comply with all provisions of the requirements imposed by the Board of Trustees pursuant to this section in order to continue receiving benefits.
§20-1111. Certain benefits and rights of retired justices and judges exempt from process – Exception of qualified domestic orders.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, any annuity, benefit, fund, property or right created by or accruing to any person under any provision of The Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges is hereby made and declared exempt from and not subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment or any other process or claim whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided by said act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Trustees may offset any benefits of a member or beneficiary to pay a judgment or settlement against a member or beneficiary for a crime involving the System, for a fraud or breach of the member’s fiduciary duty to the System, or for funds or monies incorrectly paid to a member or a beneficiary, provided such offset is in accordance with the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The offset applies to any benefits which may otherwise be payable to a member or beneficiary from any plan or fund which is administered by the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System.
4. A qualified domestic order is valid and binding on The Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges and the related member only if it meets the requirements of this subsection.
c. does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee pursuant to another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic order or an order recognized by The Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges as a valid order prior to the effective date of this act.
7. A qualified domestic order shall not require payment of benefits to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement date or withdrawal of the related member and shall not attach to or require the payment of any amount of benefits related to a deferred compensation plan or program authorized by Section 1701 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
8. The obligation of The Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges to pay an alternate payee pursuant to a qualified domestic order shall cease upon the death of the related member.
10. The Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
11. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order must fully comply with all provisions of the rules promulgated by the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System pursuant to this subsection in order to continue receiving his or her benefit.
§21-142.13. Payment of award – Exemption from process – Assignment – Counseling expenses.
A. The Crime Victims Compensation Board may compensate for work loss, replacement services loss, dependent’s economic loss and dependent’s replacement service loss. Compensation for a caregiver who has out-of-pocket wage loss as a result of caring for the victim who was injured as a result of criminally injurious conduct may not exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).
B. Compensation payable to a victim and to all other claimants sustaining economic loss because of injury to or death of that victim may not exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) in the aggregate. The Board may, after approval of an initial award of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), grant an additional sum not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00), specifically for loss of wages for the victim or loss of support for dependents of a deceased victim provided, there is verifiable economic loss after deducting payments from other sources. In no event shall compensation payable to a victim and to all other claimants sustaining economic loss because of injury to or death of that victim exceed Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) in the aggregate.
C. The Board may provide for the payment to a claimant in a lump sum or in installments. At the request of the claimant, the Board may convert future economic loss, other than allowable expense, to a lump sum.
3. The amount of time from the date of death of the victim to the date a dependent child is expected to reach eighteen (18) years of age or twenty-three (23) years of age if the dependent child is enrolled as a full-time student. An award payable in installments for future loss of support may be modified by the Board in the event a dependent child receiving loss of support is between the ages of eighteen (18) and twenty-three (23) years of age and is no longer enrolled as a full-time student, the dependent dies before all installments are paid or the dependent receiving installments moves and leaves no forwarding address with the Board office.
E. An award shall not be subject to execution, attachment, garnishment or other process, except for child support and except that an award for allowable expense shall not be exempt from a claim of a creditor to the extent that such creditor has provided products, services or accommodations, the costs of which are included in the award.
2. An assignment of any award for allowable expense to the extent that the benefits are for the cost of products, services or accommodations necessitated by the injury or death on which the claim is based and are provided or to be provided by the assignee.
G. The Board may, in its discretion, approve payment of crisis counseling, occurring within three (3) years of the crime, in an amount not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for each family member of a homicide victim; provided, the counselor is a qualified mental health care provider. Medical and pharmaceutical treatment is not compensable for any family member of a deceased victim.
H. Outpatient counseling expenses for a victim of criminally injurious conduct may be considered by the Board provided the counseling is focused on the crime and the counselor is a qualified mental health care provider. A total not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) may be awarded for individual counseling sessions for victims of criminally injurious conduct. Sessions between the mental health care provider and nonoffending parents of a victimized child under eighteen (18) years of age may also be included in the award provided the combined total for the counseling and parental sessions do not exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) and the parental sessions relate to the victimization. In extreme cases, the Board may, in its discretion, waive the three-thousand-dollar limit. Inpatient mental health treatment will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and may be compensated, at the discretion of the Board, in an amount not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00).
I. Reasonable funeral, cremation or burial expenses shall not exceed Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($7,500.00).
J. Reasonable costs associated with crime scene cleanup shall not exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00).
K. Loss of income of a caregiver shall not exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).
L. Reasonable costs for vehicle impound fees are limited to violent crimes occurring in a vehicle owned by the victim of the violent crime or an eligible claimant, provided such fee is associated with the collection and security of crime scene evidence. Reimbursement for vehicle impound fees shall not exceed Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00).
§31 7. Pension money exempt.
There shall also be exempt from levy and sale upon execution or attachment to every resident of this state who became disabled in the service of the United States as a soldier, sailor, or marine, all pension money hereafter received belonging to such soldier, sailor or marine.
§36 2410. Benefits not liable to attachments.
The money or other benefit to be paid, provided or rendered by any association authorized to do business under this article, shall not be liable to attachment by trustee, garnishee or other process.
§36 2510. Attachment or other process; benefits not subject to.
The money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any corporation, company or association authorized to do business under this article, shall not be liable to attachment or other process, and shall not be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process, nor by operation of law, to pay any debt or liability of a policy or certificate holder or of any beneficiary named in a policy or certificate.
No money or other benefit, charity, relief or aid to be paid, provided or rendered by any society, shall be liable to attachment, garnishment or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liability of a member or beneficiary, or any other person who may have a right thereunder, either before or after payment by the society.
§36-3631.1. Certain money and benefits exempt from legal process or seizure – Exceptions.
1. Inure exclusively to the benefit of the person for whose use and benefit the money or benefits are designated in the policy, plan or program; 2. Be fully exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment or other process; 3. Be fully exempt from being seized, taken or appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liability of the insured or of any beneficiary, either before or after said money or benefits is or are paid or rendered; and 4. Be fully exempt from all demands in any bankruptcy proceeding of the insured or beneficiary.
2. The insured or the insured’s estate is a contingent beneficiary.
3. A debt of the insured or beneficiary secured by a pledge of the policy or its proceeds.
D. This section shall not prevent the proper assignment of any money or benefits to be paid or rendered under an insurance policy, or any rights under the policy, by the insured or owner in accordance with the terms of the policy. A policy shall also be deemed to be payable to a person other than the insured if and to the extent that a facility-of-payment clause or similar clause in the policy permits the insurer to discharge its obligation after the death of the individual insured by paying the death benefits to a person as permitted by such clause.
E. Wherever any policy of insurance or plan or program of annuities and benefits mentioned in subsection A of this section shall contain a provision against assignment or commutation by any beneficiary thereunder of the money or benefits to be paid or rendered thereunder, or any rights therein, any assignment or commutation or any attempted assignment or commutation by such beneficiary of such money or benefits or rights in violation of such provision shall be wholly void.
F. This section shall apply to money or benefits to be paid or rendered to an insured or a beneficiary under any policy, plan or program provided for in subsection A of this section without regard to whether the policy was issued or the plan or program was established before, on, or after September 1, 1992.
§36 3632. Exemption of proceeds, group life.
A. A policy of group life insurance or the proceeds thereof payable to the individual insured or to the beneficiary thereunder, shall not be liable, either before or after payment, to be applied by any legal or equitable process to pay any liability of any person having a right under the policy. The proceeds thereof, when not made payable to a named beneficiary or to a third person pursuant to a facility of payment clause, shall not constitute a part of the estate of the individual insured for the payment of his debts.
B. This section shall not apply to group life insurance issued pursuant to Article 41 (Group life insurance and group annuity contracts) to a creditor covering his debtors, to the extent that such proceeds are applied to payment of the obligation for the purpose of which the insurance was so issued.
§37 532. Nature of license Transfer to new location.
Any license issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Act shall be a purely personal privilege. It shall not constitute property nor be subject to attachment, garnishment, or execution, or be alienable or transferable, either voluntarily or involuntarily; nor shall it descend by the laws of descent and distribution, but shall cease upon the death of the licensee; provided, however, that the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, under such regulations and subject to such restrictions as it may prescribe, may permit the executors or administrators of the estate of any deceased licensee, or the trustees of an insolvent or bankrupt licensee, or the legal guardian of a licensee who has been adjudged to be incompetent or insane, to exercise the privileges under any license held by him for such period as the ABLE Commission may deem equitable during the administration of the deceased or bankrupt licensee’s estate, but not to exceed two (2) years. A license may not be transferred to a new location, except upon application to the ABLE Commission and endorsement on the license by the ABLE Commission showing the new location. An application for transfer of license shall be accompanied by a certificate reflecting, as to the proposed new location, compliance with municipal zoning ordinances or county zoning regulations and municipal or county fire, safety and health codes as required by Section 523 of this title. A mixed beverage or bottle club licensee who transfers his license to a new location shall pay a transfer fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) to the ABLE Commission.
§40-2-303. Assignments void, exemption from process.
No assignment, pledge, or encumbrance of any right to benefits which are or may become due or payable under the Employment Security Act of 1980 shall be valid. All such rights to benefits shall be exempt from levy, execution, attachment, or any other remedy whatsoever provided for the collection of debt. Benefits received by an individual, so long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, shall be exempt from any remedy whatsoever for the collection of all debts during the time the individual was unemployed, except those debts incurred for necessaries furnished to the individual or his or her spouse, or dependents, including child support obligations pursuant to Section 2-801 of this title, and debts created due to food stamp overissuances for which the individual is liable pursuant to Section 2-803 of this title. Benefits shall be subject to tax levies issued by the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with 26 U.S.C., Section 6331(h) provided an agreement is entered into between the Internal Revenue Service and the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, and approved by the United States Department of Labor, that provides for the payment of all administrative costs associated with processing the tax levies. No waiver of any exemption provided for in this section shall be valid.
§54-1-504. Partner’s Transferable Interest Subject to Charging Order.
(a) On application by a judgment creditor of a partner or of a partner’s transferee, a court having jurisdiction may charge the transferable interest of the judgment debtor to satisfy the judgment. The court may appoint a receiver of the share of the distributions due or to become due to the judgment debtor in respect of the partnership and make all other orders, directions, accounts, and inquiries the judgment debtor might have made or which the circumstances of the case may require.
(b) A charging order constitutes a lien on the judgment debtor’s transferable interest in the partnership. The court may order a foreclosure of the interest subject to the charging order at any time. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale has the rights of a transferee.
(3) with partnership property, by one or more of the other partners with the consent of all of the partners whose interests are not so charged.
(d) This act does not deprive a partner of a right under exemption laws with respect to the partner’s interest in the partnership.
(e) This section provides the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor of a partner or partner’s transferee may satisfy a judgment out of the judgment debtor’s transferable interest in the partnership.
All rights to assistance under this act shall be inalienable by any assignment, sale or transfer; and said assistance shall not be subject to execution, attachment, garnishment or other process, and in the case of bankruptcy, the assistance shall not pass to or through any trustee or any other person acting on behalf of creditors. Any contract or transfer or assignment or sale made contrary to the provisions of this act shall be void.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, the right of a person to an annuity or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, annuity, or retirement allowance itself, any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this act, and the monies in the various funds created by this act, are hereby exempt from levy and sale, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as in this act specifically provided. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Trustees may approve any offset of a member’s benefit to pay a judgment or settlement against a member for a crime involving the System, for a breach of the member’s fiduciary duty to the System, or for funds or monies incorrectly paid to a member or a beneficiary by mistake, provided such offset is in accordance with the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
2. The term “qualified domestic order” means an order issued by a district court of this state pursuant to the domestic relation laws of the State of Oklahoma which relates to the provision of marital property rights to a spouse or former spouse of a member or provision of support for a minor child or children and which creates or recognizes the existence of the right of an alternate payee, or assigns to an alternate payee the right, to receive a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a member of the Retirement System.
c. does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee pursuant to another order previously determined to be a qualified domestic order or an order recognized by the Retirement System as a valid order prior to the effective date of this act.
10. The Board of Trustees of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Oklahoma shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
11. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order must fully comply with all provisions of the rules promulgated by the Board of Trustees pursuant to this subsection in order to continue receiving his or her benefit.
A. Except as otherwise provided by this section, no alteration, amendment, or repeal of this act shall affect the then existing rights of members and beneficiaries, but shall be effective only as to rights which would otherwise accrue hereunder as a result of services rendered by an employee after such alteration, amendment, or repeal. Any annuity, benefits, fund, property, or rights created by or accruing to any person under the provisions of this act shall not be subject to execution, garnishment or attachment, or any other process or claim whatsoever, and shall be unassignable, except as specifically provided by Section 901 et seq. of this title. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Trustees may offset any benefits of a member or beneficiary to pay a judgment or settlement against a member or beneficiary for a crime involving the System, for a fraud or breach of the member’s fiduciary duty to the System, or for funds or monies incorrectly paid to a member or a beneficiary, provided such offset is in accordance with the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The offset applies to any benefits which may otherwise be payable to a member or beneficiary from any plan or fund which is administered by the Board of Trustees.
7. A qualified domestic order shall not require payment of benefits to an alternate payee prior to the actual retirement date or withdrawal of the related member and shall not attach to or require the payment of any amount of benefits related to a deferred compensation plan or program authorized by Section 1701 et seq. of this title.
9. This subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A. Section 1001 et seq., as amended from time to time, or rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and court cases interpreting said act.
10. The Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subsection.
11. An alternate payee who has acquired beneficiary rights pursuant to a valid qualified domestic order must fully comply with all provisions of the rules promulgated by the Board pursuant to this subsection in order to continue receiving his or her benefit.
§85-48. Claims nonassignable – Exempt from all processes – Death of claimant, to whom compensation paid.
Claims for compensation or benefits due under the Workers’ Compensation Act shall not be assigned, released or commuted except as provided by the Workers’ Compensation Act, and shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from levy, execution or attachment or other remedy for recovery or collection of a debt, which exemption may not be waived. Compensation and benefits shall be paid only to employees; provided, that if an employee dies as a result of his accidental personal injury or occupational disease, any unaccrued portions of an award or order for compensation benefits shall abate. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any party from the enforcement of any valid lien for child support or valid income assignment for child support.
The term “dependent”, as used in this section, means actually dependent in fact upon the deceased employee, and refers only to a person who received more than half of his support from the employee.
(a) If there is a surviving spouse and no child of the deceased under the age of eighteen (18) years, to the surviving spouse.
(b) If there is a surviving child or children of the deceased under the age of eighteen (18) years, or dependent blind or dependent crippled child or children of any age, but no surviving spouse then for the support of each such child, to share and share alike until the full payment of the award.
(c) If there is a surviving spouse, a surviving child or children of the deceased under the age of eighteen (18) years, or a dependent blind or dependent crippled child or children of any age, one half (1/2) shall be payable to the surviving spouse and the other half to the surviving child or children.
(d) If there is no surviving spouse or child under the age of eighteen (18), or dependent blind or dependent crippled child of any age, then to the dependent parents to share and share alike, and if there are no dependent parents, then to the dependent brothers and sisters, to share and share alike.
(e) In the event the claimant is survived by none of the above named, then the award for compensation benefits shall abate.
(1) To one dependent child, fifteen percent (15%) of the weekly benefits awarded employee, but in no event more than a maximum of Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per week.
(2) To two or more dependent children, twenty five percent (25%) of the weekly benefits awarded employee, but in no event more than a maximum of Twenty five Dollars ($25.00) per week, which shall be divided among the children, to share and share alike.
(c) If there is no surviving spouse, but there is a surviving child under the age of eighteen (18) years, or a dependent blind or dependent crippled child of any age, the child shall receive twenty five percent (25%) of the weekly benefits awarded the decedent, but in no event more than a maximum of Twenty five Dollars ($25.00) per week.
(d) If there is no surviving spouse, but there are two or more surviving children under the age of eighteen (18) years, or dependent blind or dependent crippled children of any age, the children shall receive fifty percent (50%) of the weekly benefits awarded the decedent, but in no event more than a maximum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per week, which shall be divided among the children to share and share alike.
(e) The income benefits payable to any spouse under this section shall cease when the spouse dies or remarries.
(f) The income benefits payable for the benefit of any child under this section shall cease when the child dies, marries or reaches the age of eighteen (18) years, or when a child over eighteen (18) years of age ceases to be physically or mentally incapable of self support, or if actually dependent ceases to be actually dependent, or if enrolled as a full time student in any accredited educational institution, ceases to be so enrolled or reaches the age of twenty three (23) years. A child who originally qualified as a dependent by virtue of being less than eighteen (18) years of age may, upon reaching age eighteen (18) years, continue to qualify if the child satisfies the tests of being physically or mentally incapable of self support, actually dependent or enrolled in an accredited educational institution.
(g) If there is no surviving spouse or children under the age of eighteen (18) years or dependent blind or dependent crippled children of any age, then to the surviving dependent parents of the decedent fifty percent (50%) of the weekly benefits awarded the employee, but in no event more than a maximum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per week. If there is only one dependent surviving parent, then the surviving dependent parent shall receive twenty five percent (25%) of the weekly benefits awarded employee, but in no event more than a maximum of Twenty five Dollars ($25.00) per week. Payments shall continue during the dependent parent’s lifetime and shall abate upon the death of the dependent parent or when the dependent parent is no longer dependent.
(h) If there are no surviving dependent persons as set forth herein, the award for compensation benefits shall abate.
(i) The maximum weekly income benefits payable for all persons in case of the employee’s death due to causes other than the accidental personal injury or occupational disease shall not exceed seventy five percent (75%) of the average weekly wage of the employee, subject to the maximum limits of compensation set forth in Section 22 of this title.
Note: While this reference information is current as of August 2010, it may not reflect the most up-to-date exemption figures on official state of Oklahoma bankruptcy court statutes.

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