MADDOX, Justice.
The question presented on these appeals is whether the doctrine of federal preemption applies, specifically, whether federal law allowed a former husband to change the beneficiary on a Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) policy, even though a state circuit court, in a divorce proceeding, had ordered him to maintain his former wife as the sole beneficiary.
The learned trial judge, in a lengthy judgment, determined that "the effect...
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