MATTHEWS v. MATTHEWS

No. 127, September Term, 1993.

336 Md. 241 (1994)

JACQUELYN B. MATTHEWS v. HERBERT MATTHEWS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 19, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.H. Michael Rankin, Upper Marlboro, for appellant.

Bruce A. Kaufman (Thomas C. Ries, Rosenthal, Kaufman & Ries, P.A., all on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

Under the Survivor Benefit Plan, 10 U.S.C. §§ 1447-55 (1988 & 1993 Supp.), certain members of the armed services are eligible to elect to provide their dependents with survivor benefits. The issue in this case is whether Maryland courts have the authority, pursuant to a divorce decree, to order a party to maintain a former spouse as the beneficiary of the Survivor Benefit Plan. The Circuit Court for St. Mary's County held that it did not...

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