Nalesnik v. Nalesnik

This timely appeal arises from a dispute over a separation agreement and the designated beneficiaries of a series of life insurance contracts identified within the agreement.

On August 10, 1983 Gerald and Gail Nalesnik ("husband" and "wife"), dissolved their marriage of seventeen years in the Domestic *421Relations Division of the Court of Common Pleas ("domestic relations court"). In section seven of their separation agreement the two agreed that the husband would name their three minor children as "sole, exclusive and irrevocable beneficiaries" of the four named policies within the plan. This…