Conn v. Trow

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is a dispute over the disposition of funds accumulated in the name of Larry Trow under a retirement plan with his employer. The plan was a flexible retirement annuity contract which provided that if the employee died before commencement of his annuity, certain “death benefits” would be payable to his designated beneficiary. Shortly before Larry Trow married Mary Conn, he enrolled in the plan and designated Mary Conn as his beneficiary. When Trow and Conn were later divorced, the decree contained this provision:

Respondent is awarded the following as his sole and…