Seavey v. Long

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DREIER, P.J.A.D.

Defendant, Nan Long (Seavey), appeals from an order of the Family Part imposing a constructive trust on seventy percent of the widow’s benefits she receives from the Police and Fireman’s Retirement System (PFRS) as a result of the death of her late husband, Ralph Seavey. Plaintiff is the late husband’s first wife, Mary Rose Seavey. In the property settlement agreement incorporated in the divorce judgment, plaintiff was given fifty percent of the husband’s pension benefits, in effect as equitable distribution.1 While the husband was…