Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Kaplan
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 16, 1993PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
In Caravaggio v Retirement Bd. of Teachers’ Retirement Sys. (36 NY2d 348), we held that an "anti-assignment” statute prevented a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) from designating a former spouse as "irrevocable beneficiary” of pension benefits in a separation agreement, and that a subsequently executed beneficiary form filed with the Retirement System governed distribution of those funds. The enactment of the Equitable Distribution Law in the interim, however, prompts us to revisit the issue and to reach a different conclusion today. For the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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