Light v. Employees' Retirement System of Alabama

STEAGALL, Justice.

Jeanette W. Cambrón, the ex-wife of Louis Cambrón, deceased, and Loma Cambrón Light and Christopher B. Cambrón, Louis Cambron’s adult children by a previous marriage, filed claims with the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama (“ERS”), re-questmg payment of Louis Cambron’s prere-tirement death benefits. In 1984, Louis had designated Jeanette, who was then his wife, as the primary beneficiary of his preretirement death benefits and had designated Lorna and Christopher as contingent beneficiaries. Louis and Jeanette were divorced in 1987, but Louis did not remarry, and, at…