Paulino v. Ramirez

BERMAN, J.S.C.

Introduction

This non-dissolution matter arises on motion by the Plaintiff, Maria Paulino (hereinafter “Plaintiff’) for an order compelling defendant. Gustavo Ramirez, Sr. (hereinafter “Defendant”) to name the parties’ son. Gustavo Ramirez, Jr., born May 5,1992, as the sole, irrevocable beneficiary of an existing $100,000.00 life insurance policy which Defendant owns and on which he is the named insured. The case raises an issues which has received limited analysis in case law: whether the court can order the noncustodial parent to maintain life insurance for the benefit of the…