United States Tenth Circuit

Utah's Uniform Probate Code, Utah Code Ann. section 75-2-804(2), which revokes upon divorce a pre-divorce designation of a spouse as the beneficiary of an annuity or similar asset, applies even when the beneficiary designation and divorce predate the statute's effective date, and application here does not violate the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution or the comparable Utah constitutional provision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2003
• Published 09/11/2003

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ and McKAY, Circuit Judges, and BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen K. Christiansen, of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy (Kenneth W. Yeates, with him on the briefs), Salt Lake City, UT, for Counterclaim Defendants-Appellants., Alan L. Sullivan, of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (Todd Shaughnessy and Amy F. Sorenson, with him on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiffs-Counterclaim Defendants-Appellees.