Spendthrift Provision. To the fullest extent permitted by law, none of the benefits, payments, accounts, funds or proceeds of any contract held hereunder shall be subject, voluntarily or involuntarily, to any claim of any creditor of any Participant or of his spouse or other Beneficiary, nor shall the same be subject to attachment, garnishment or other legal or equitable process by any creditor of a Participant or of his spouse or other Beneficiary, nor shall any Participant or his spouse or other Beneficiary have any right to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber or assign any such benefits, payments, accounts, funds or proceeds of any such contract. The preceding sentence shall also apply to the creation, assignment or recognition of a right to any benefit payable with respect to a Participant pursuant to a domestic relations order, unless such order is determined to be a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code. It is the intention of the Companies that benefit payments hereunder shall be made only at the times, in the amounts and to the distributees as specified in this Plan regardless of any marital dissolution, bankruptcy or other legal proceedings to which such distributees may be a party to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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Samples: Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust Agreement (Union Community Bancorp), Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust Agreement (Union Community Bancorp), Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust Agreement (Lincoln Bancorp /In/)