Brooks v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The parties’ settlement agreement indicates that they agreed that [former wife] should have 50 percent of the value of [husband’s] retirement plan at the date of dissolution. [Husband] will not receive payments from the plan until he retires. Without the designation of [former wife] as a surviving spouse, her interest in the plan would be lost if [husband] died before retirement and would end when he died after retiring. Hence, we disagree that [former wife] should not have been designated as a surviving spouse. [Former wife] is entitled to her portion of [husband’s] retirement plan without regard for when [husband] dies. Her designation as a surviving spouse protects her interest in the retirement plan. To hold otherwise, would be an alteration of the court’s order regarding distribution of marital property, and § 452.330.5 prohibits it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kuba v. Kuba