{"id":9496,"date":"2022-12-31T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2022-12-31T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:48:24","slug":"divorce-orders-must-include-beneficiary-designation-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9496","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Orders Must Include Beneficiary Designation Warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/CFDOCS\/LEGIS\/LI\/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;yr=2022&amp;sessInd=0&amp;smthLwInd=0&amp;act=0106.\" target=\"_blank\">Act of November 3, 2022, No. 106<\/a>, P.L. 1691, amends <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/LI\/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&amp;ttl=23&amp;div=0&amp;chpt=33&amp;sctn=23&amp;subsctn=0\" target=\"_blank\">23 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3323<\/a> to require that divorce decrees and annulment orders include a provision advising the parties to reaffirm or change beneficiary designations for life insurance policies, annuity contracts, retirement plans, and other contracts if there is an intention to keep a former spouse as a beneficiary, and that failure to do so may result in the revocation of the beneficiary designation for the former spouse under <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/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. \u00a7 6111.2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Act of November 3, 2022, No. 106, P.L. 1691, amends 23 Pa.C.S. \u00a7 3323 to require that divorce decrees and annulment orders include a provision advising the parties to reaffirm or change beneficiary designations for life insurance policies, annuity &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9496\">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":[29,35],"tags":[315,233,159],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-items","category-statutes","tag-beneficiary-designations","tag-divorce","tag-pef-6111-2","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","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=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}