Quality & tailored asset division solutions to fit you & your clients
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Mitigating risk & error
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Increasing ROI
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Reducing overall costs
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Keeping you on track
• Mitigating risk & error • Increasing ROI • Reducing overall costs • Keeping you on track
what we do
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Provide expertise and guidance during the process of negotiation and settlement
We partner with attorneys, mediators, and parties from the outset to gain deep understanding of goals and intentions
Unlike most other service providers, we don't enter the process as an afterthought to provide a cookie cutter approach
Save clients time, money, and headaches by participating actively in stipulation/agreement/judgment drafting
We don't provide cookie-cutter "plan-specific language" for purchase or otherwise; we treat every matter uniquely
Help clients understand the value of offsetting property and help to calculate
Surface all aspects and availability of all benefits of a particular plan
Election of benefits
Survivor benefits
Early-retirement/buyout benefits
Shared, Separate, or Severed Interest
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Proactively advise and participate in the negotiation and agreement process to ensure language that is actionable according to ERISA and plan requirements
Draft and obtain pre-approval (where available) bespoke QDRO documents
Implementing language and intent of parties' agreements
Complying with plan requirements
Iterating and amending documents where necessary to make final document execution seamless
Review already-drafted QDROs for adherence to party intent and/or plan compliance
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Pension and other defined benefit plans
Present value calculations for offsetting purposes or for creating separate interests
Separate interest and shared payment calculations
401(k), 403(b) and other defined contribution plans
Tracing method calculation and analysis
Other compensation assets
Vested and unvested equity compensation including
Restricted Stock Units
Employee stock option plan assets
how we work
We get it right the first time by starting at the beginning of the process and working closely with attorneys, mediators, and client parties. Leveraging AI and automation tools as force multipliers for human processes to support efficiency, while having the care and understanding of an experienced attorney. We produce the most efficient and hands on experience to make asset division as smooth as possible.
01 hop on a call
We start with a discovery call to ensure there's a fit and understand the biggest priorities & challenges for you and your clients.
02 review
We'll help with asset discovery. Where there is a need for our strategic expertise, we launch our intake process and contact plan administrators to define the full scope of benefits available. If a brief review surfaces an alternative approach that meets client needs and goals without further action (e.g., QDRO drafting), we'll suggest it and exit with no fee due.
03 let’s get to work
Once our intake process begins, our team will confirm procedures with plan administrators and we'll perform a quality control review of proposed separation agreement/stipulation language to ensure it is actionable. You and your clients can opt to receive status checkpoint updates from start to finish.
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why qustm?
Unlike traditional consultants or drafting services. We provide the experience of an attorney with astute financial acumen and the process of a highly efficient and collaborative team member.
Avoid unseen hazards
Whether it is present value analysis for offsetting assets, constructing a Separate Interest, identifying and planning for pre-retirement survivor annuity benefits, balance tracing, or navigating plan administrator procedures and portals, we help clarify and complete the asset and benefits picture.
Unload the heavy lifting
We address wide-ranging plan idiosyncrasies through active communication with plan administrators and integrate our institutional knowledge with a subject matter-specific proprietary AI reference bot. Offloading plan-related communications and drafting to QUSTM also mitigates your malpractice risk.
Stay on track
We keep the process moving forward through personalized attention and automated systems. Wrapping up client matters efficiently and on time.
about us
QUSTM was founded to marry a deliberate, client-centered approach to asset division and distribution with the quality and efficiency afforded to humans by the wealth of technology tools available today.
Our team brings experiences spanning finance, operations, legal, compliance, information technology, and even science & engineering to make continuous improvements to process and quality.