{"id":1603,"date":"2013-09-01T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T20:06:07","slug":"mancilla-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"ERISA Preemption of Beneficiary Designations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">Decedent began divorce action before death and changed the beneficiaries of a profit sharing plan of his employer without spouse&#8217;s consent.\u00a0 ERISA and not <a title=\"PEF 6111.2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=20&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=61&amp;sctn=11&amp;subsctn=2\" target=\"_blank\">20 Pa.C.S.A. 6111.2<\/a> controls, meaning beneficiary designations could not exclude spouse without spouse&#8217;s consent in writing.<i>\u00a0 Mancilla Estate<\/i>, 3 Fid. Rep. 3d 297 (O.C. Chester 2013) (Opinion by Tunnell, J.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decedent began divorce action before death and changed the beneficiaries of a profit sharing plan of his employer without spouse&#8217;s consent.\u00a0 ERISA and not 20 Pa.C.S.A. 6111.2 controls, meaning beneficiary designations could not exclude spouse without spouse&#8217;s consent in writing.\u00a0 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[233,100,234],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-divorce","tag-erisa","tag-retirement-plan","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}