Legal Opinion
John Vanderkam v. Melissa Vanderkam
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 20, 2015No. 13-5163PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
Concurring opinion filed by Senior Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) entitles certain spouses of pension plan participants to a survivor annuity unless waived pursuant to clearly defined procedures. In this case, the pension plan participant concedes that ERISA vested an annuity in his ex-wife, but nonetheless argues that Texas law, including his Texas divorce decree, requires entry now of a declaratory judgment that, after his death, she place her annuity payments into a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Boggs v. BoggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- National Treasury Employees Union v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
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