2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 9186 (N.Y. 2015) Cited 106 times
In Ministers, the Court of Appeals held that New York choice-of-law provisions in retirement and death benefit plans for certain ministers and missionaries controlled over a New York statutory directive, EPTL 3-5.1(b)(2), that would have applied the substantive law of the decedent's domicile at death in determining the effect of the decedent's divorce on the designation of his wife as beneficiary.