{"id":8790,"date":"2021-09-04T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2021-09-04T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T14:16:55","slug":"no-jurisdiction-over-nonqualified-employee-benefit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8790","title":{"rendered":"No Jurisdiction over Nonqualified Employee Benefit Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court did not have mandatory jurisdiction in a dispute over the beneficiary designation of a decedent&#8217;s interest in a nonqualified employee benefit plan, and the court declined to exercise permissive jurisdiction when the plan provided for jurisdiction in Illinois.  <em>Swain Estate<\/em>, 11 Fid.Rep.3d 160 (Allegheny O.C. 2021), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/j-a02020-21m%20-%20104812796138484943.pdf#search=%22swain%20%27Superior%2bCourt%27%22\">465 WDA 2020<\/a> (Pa. Super. 6\/22\/2021) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court did not have mandatory jurisdiction in a dispute over the beneficiary designation of a decedent&#8217;s interest in a nonqualified employee benefit plan, and the court declined to exercise permissive jurisdiction when the plan provided for jurisdiction in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[210,129],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-jurisdiction","tag-lack-of-jurisdiction","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}