Family
Dec. 15, 2010
Does a Spouse’s Waiver of Interest Trump the Beneficiary Designation?
What happens when your client's beneficiary designation is inconsistent with the terms of the divorce decree?
Mitchell A. Jacobs
Law Office of Mitchell A. Jacobsfamily law (certified)
21860 Burbank Blvd #175
Woodland Hills , CA 91367-7438
Phone: (310) 717-1447
Email: mjacobs@jacobsfamilylaw.com
California Western Law School
Mitchell A. Jacobs is a certified family law specialist who limits his practice to serving as a private judge and mediating marital dissolution and other family law matters.
You are an estate planning and/or family law lawyer. Your client and his spouse discovered after a few years of marriage that the promise they made to each other was far from the reality of their lives. They enter into a stipulated judgment terminating their marital status and waive their rights to the other's property. The parties each place their copy of the stipulated judgment in a safe deposit box and move on with their lives. You move on too, content that the settlement terms were f...
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