None of the payments provided for by this Plan shall be subject to seizure for payment of any debts or judgments against the Employee; nor shall the Employee have any right to transfer, modify, anticipate or encumber any rights or benefits hereunder.

Non-Alienation of Benefits. No right or benefit under the Plan shall be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or charge, and any attempt to anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber, or change any right or benefit under this Plan shall be void. No right or benefit hereunder shall in any manner be liable for or subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities or torts of the person entitled to such benefits. If the Participant, Former Participant or Beneficiary becomes bankrupt, or attempts to anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber, or change any right hereunder, then such right or benefit shall, in the discretion of the Committee, cease and terminate, and in such event, the Committee may hold or apply the same or any part thereof for the benefit of the Participant, Former Participant or Beneficiary, spouse, children, or other dependents, or any of them in such manner and in such amounts and proportions as the Committee may deem proper.

No Alienation. Participants’ Account balances under this Plan, and any rights and privileges pertaining thereto, shall not be subject to alienation, pledge, anticipation, attachment, garnishment, receivership, execution or levy of any kind, including liability for alimony or support payments, and any attempt to cause such amounts to be so subjected shall not be recognized, except to the extent as may be required by law, including laws of descent and distribution.

Non-alienation. The right of a Participant or any other person to the payment of any benefit hereunder shall not be assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered.

Non-Alienation. The interest of a Participant under the Plan shall not be assignable by the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary or legal representative, either by voluntary assignment or by operation of law, and any assignment of such interest, whether voluntary or by operation of law, shall be ineffective; provided that # a Participant may designate a beneficiary to receive any benefit payable under the Plan upon the Participant’s death, and # the legal representative of a Participant’s estate may assign the Participant’s interest under the Plan to the persons entitled to any benefit payable under the Plan upon the Participant’s death.

Section # Non-Alienation of Benefits.

Non-Alienation of Retirement Rights or Benefits. An Employee or beneficiary is not permitted to assign, transfer, alienate or otherwise encumber the right to receive payments under the Plan. Any attempt to do so or to permit the payments to be subject to garnishment, attachment or levy of any kind will permit the Company to make payments directly to and for the benefit of the Employee, his beneficiary or any other person. Each such payment may be made without the intervention of a guardian. The receipt of the payee shall constitute a complete acquittance to the Company with respect to the payment. The Company shall have no responsibility for the proper application of any payment.

Non‑Alienation of Retirement Rights or Benefits. No right or benefit under the Program shall at any time be subject in any manner to alienation or encumbrances. If any person shall attempt to, or shall, alienate or in any way encumber his or her rights or benefits under the Program, or any part thereof, or if by reason of his or her bankruptcy or other event happening at any time any such benefits would otherwise be received by anyone else or would not be enjoyed by him or her, his or her interest in all such benefits shall automatically terminate and the same, at the discretion of the Compensation Committee, shall be held or applied to or for the benefit of such person, his or her spouse, children, or other dependents as the Compensation Committee may select.

Except as provided in section 5.5 below, payments provided under this Plan may not be assigned or otherwise alienated or pledged.

Benefits. Subject to Section 2.e. and 2.g. hereof, for a two (2)-year period following Termination of Employment, the Company shall provide the Executive with health, disability, life and other insurance benefits substantially similar to the benefits received by the Executive pursuant to the Company’s (or the Employer’s) benefit programs as in effect immediately during the 180 days preceding the Change of Control Date (or, if more favorable to the Executive, as in effect at any time thereafter until the Termination of Employment); provided, however, that no compensation or benefits provided hereunder shall be treated as compensation for purposes of any of the programs or shall result in the crediting of additional service thereunder.