Williams v. Crawford

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pensions earned during marriage are marital property subject to division upon divorce
• holding that pensions earned during marriage are marital property subject to division upon divorce
• holding that agreement obligating former husband to name former wife as recipient of pension's survivorship benefit did not entitle former wife to guaranteed annuity in amount she would have received had she remained statutorily eligible for survivorship benefits
• finding fundamental assumption destroyed when wife was subsequently found ineligible for survivorship benefits of civil service pension
• “Although clause six is a ‘catch-all’ provision, relief under clause six is not available unless the other clauses are inapplicable.”
• extrinsic evidence of intent only considered if contract is not intrinsically clear

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).