Section 6-40-10 - Pre-retirement Hawaii domestic relations order(a) When the system receives a retirement application from a member or former member with vested benefit status who is eligible to receive a retirement benefit and whose retirement benefits are subject to a Hawaii domestic relations order, the system shall notify the alternate payee, at the address provided by alternate payee pursuant to section 6-40-4, of the member's application for retirement benefits.(b) The system shall pay the alternate payee in accordance with the Hawaii domestic relations order commencing the same date that retirement benefit payments are effective for the member or former member with vested benefit status; provided that the system may withhold payments to the alternate payee until receipt by the system of alternate payee's claim for payment and all supporting documentation required by the system for payment to the alternate payee. Upon receipt by the system of the alternate payee's claim for payment and all supporting documentation required by the system for payment to the alternate payee, the system shall pay to alternate payee, without interest, the payments withheld by the system. [Eff 7/1/2020] (Auth: §§ 88-28 and 88-93.5) (Imp: § 88-93.5)