Adams Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

The question presented by this appeal is whether a wife who was named by her husband as beneficiary of the balance in a retirement fund both by name and relationship continues to be the beneficiary after divorce, her husband not having exercised his right prior to his death to change the beneficiary designation.

John H. Adams, the decedent, was an employee of Allegheny County and as such a participant in the Allegheny County Employees’ Retirement System.1 On December 9, 1966 he married Patricia Ann Kennedy, *179the appellant, and six days later advised the Retirement…