Stillman v. Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n College Retirement Equities Fund

How courts have described this case

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• disagreeing with Whirlpool and citing criticism by the Joint Editorial Board for the Uniform Probate Code
• applying a revocation-upon-divorce provision to preexisting documents due to a statutory provision allowing for such a construction
• “[b]ecause no contractual obligation is impaired by [re-designation statute], there is no violation of the federal Contracts Clause in applying the statute here”
• “The Contracts Clause addresses contracts, not donative transfers. Because no contractual obligation is impaired by [Utah’s revocation-upon-divorce statute], there is no violation of the federal Contracts Clause in applying the statute here.”
• “[Construction of contracts is generally guided by the ‘objective theory’ of contracts — what is important is what the language of the document conveys to reasonable people in the circumstances, not what a party to the agreement privately intended.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).