Daniels v. Retirement Board of the Policeman's Annuity & Benefit Fund

PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment on administrative review affirming a decision of the Retirement Board of the Policeman’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago (Board), which denied widow annuity benefits to her. She contends that (1) the evidence did not rebut the presumption that a divorce occurred between her deceased husband and his first wife, defendant Marion Daniels Robinson; and (2) she is a putative spouse under section 305 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (the Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 40, par.…