Elder Law

Update Your Beneficiary Designations
Failure to update one's beneficiary designations for life insurance, annuities and retirement accounts is all too common.  One of the more common problems stems from not changing beneficiary designations after a divorce...

U.S. Supreme Court says ex-wife gets pension benefits
Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court holds ex-wife entitled to pension benefits In a follow-up to a previous post concerning a dispute between an ex-wife and her daughter over the ex-husband's pension benefits, the U...

Dividing the Nest Egg in Divorce
Dividing Pension Plans in a Mississippi Divorce Two major concerns arise when dividing pension plans benefits governed by ERISA. First is whether the pension plan administrator will follow the directives of the divorcing spouses...

New briefs filed in ERISA case
The court battle over a $402,000 pension payment, and over the larger issue of a divorced spouse’s right to pension benefits, resumed in the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon with the filing of three new briefs called for by the Court on Oct...

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument Yesterday In QDRO case
Kennedy v. Plan Adm. for DuPont Savings was heard by the United States Supreme Court yesterday. At issue is whether a divorce agreement waiving survivorship pension rights is sufficient to defeat an unchanged beneficiary designation...

Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer's Tip: Pension's Vested or Not Vested
If either party in a Rhode Island divorce has a pension then there are various issues you will want to consider. Specifically, the divorce issue we want to address here is that of "vesting...