KAPLAN v. KAPLAN


82 N.Y.2d 300 (1993)

624 N.E.2d 656

604 N.Y.S.2d 519

Sondra Kaplan, Respondent, v. Nessa Kaplan et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Submitted on reargument October 6, 1993.

Decided November 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York City (T. Barry Kingham and Michelle A. Rice of counsel), for Nessa Kaplan, appellant.

O. Peter Sherwood, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Edward F. X. Hart, Larry A. Sonnenshein and Susan Sanders of counsel), for Teachers' Retirement System of City of New York, appellant.

Evan L. Gordon, New York City, for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, HANCOCK, JR., BELLACOSA, SMITH and LEVINE concur.


TITONE, J.

In Caravaggio v Retirement Bd. of Teachers' Retirement Sys. (36 N.Y.2d 348), we held that an "anti-assignment" statute prevented a member of the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) from designating a former spouse as "irrevocable beneficiary" of pension benefits in a separation agreement, and that a subsequently executed beneficiary form filed with the Retirement...

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