Topol v. Polokoff

Karen J. Topol appeals from a final summary judgment in favor of Joely Polo-koff and Virginia Lockwood-Zisa. The appeal concerns a dispute over entitlement to an IRA account owned by appellant’s husband, who died while divorce proceedings were pending between him and appellant. The trial court entered final summary judgment for appellees, the husband’s daughters, after determining that interlocutory orders which compelled the husband to change his IRA account beneficiary designation from appellees to appellant did not survive abatement of the divorce proceedings upon the husband’s death.1 We…