RIDGWAY v. PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA


419 A.2d 1030 (1980)

Hayley D. RIDGWAY et al. v. PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided September 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linnell, Choate & Webber, G. Curtis Webber (orally), Auburn, Orestis & Garcia, Peter Garcia (orally), Lewiston, for plaintiffs.

Skelton, Taintor & Abbott, Stephen P. Beale (orally), Lewiston, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN and ROBERTS, JJ.


GLASSMAN, Justice.

In this case, we are called upon to decide a very narrow but important issue: whether federal law prohibits a state court from imposing a constructive trust on the proceeds of a Servicemen's Group Life Insurance policy in favor of a deceased serviceman's minor children when, contrary to a property settlement agreement and an express judicial decree, the serviceman failed to name the minor children as beneficiaries of that insurance.

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