Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Rose Marie Wheaton, and Douglas Wheaton and Daniel Wheaton
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 1994No. 94-1362PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This appeal presents questions of statutory interpretation in the context of a divorce decree that seeks to regulate the distribution of benefits under an ERISA welfare (as distinct from pension) plan. Frank Wheaton was a participant in the General Electric Employee Welfare Plan. One of the benefits provided by the plan was group life insurance. Wheaton and his wife divorced, and a stipulation incorporated in the divorce decree required both parties to “maintain ... the life insurance which is presently carried through his/her employer with the children of the parties…
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