United States v. Torres-Melendez

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that separation agreement in which ex-wife agreed to maintain unnamed insurance policies in \full force and effect\ with ex-husband \as primary beneficiary\ maintained beneficiary designation
• imposing constructive trust on proceeds of later-obtained insurance policy naming different beneficiary than required under dissolution agreement
• looking to Massachusetts precedent and “persuasive authority from other jurisdictions” to determine whether equitable remedy should be available
• imposing a constructive trust on proceeds of a life insurance policy existing at the time of the divorce decree, but refusing to do so for an after-acquired policy
• finding, where ex-wife agreed to maintain unnamed insurance policies in \full force and effect\ with ex-husband as beneficiary, that ex-wife could not later change - 23 - beneficiary designation
• “[A] beneficiary’s legal interest in policies or plans is conditional and subject to defeasance until the insured’s death . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).