Boggs v. Boggs

Boggs v. Boggs
Boggs v. Boggs
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1997; Decided June 2, 1997
Full case name	Sandra Jean Dale Boggs v. Thomas F. Boggs, Harry M. Boggs, and David B. Boggs
Citations	520 U.S. 833 (more) 117 S.Ct. 1754; 138 L. Ed. 2d 45; 1997 U.S. LEXIS 3396
Case history
Prior	District court granted summary judgment to respondent sons, 849 F. Supp. 462 (E.D. La. 1994); Court of appeals affirmed, 82 F.3d 90 (5th Cir. 1996).
Holding
	ERISA pre-empts state community property law, when dealing with non-participating spouse and the right to will undistributed pensions.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Stevens, Scalia, Souter, Thomas; Rehnquist, Ginsburg (part III)
Dissent	Breyer, joined by O'Connor; Rehnquist, Ginsburg (except part II-B-3)
Laws applied
	Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.

Boggs v. Boggs, 520 U.S. 833 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a spouse that is not a participant in an ERISA account cannot will part or all of it before distribution of the pension plan.^[1]^[2]

^ Association, American Bar (August 1997). ABA Journal. American Bar Association. p. 54.
^ Schoenblum, Jeffrey A. (2007). Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning 2008. CCH. pp. 10–80. ISBN 978-0-8080-9138-7.

[1] Association, American Bar (August 1997). ABA Journal. American Bar Association. p. 54.

[2] Schoenblum, Jeffrey A. (2007). Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning 2008. CCH. pp. 10–80. ISBN 978-0-8080-9138-7.

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Boggs v. Boggs
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1997 Decided June 2, 1997
Full case name	Sandra Jean Dale Boggs v. Thomas F. Boggs, Harry M. Boggs, and David B. Boggs
Citations	520 U.S. 833 (more) 117 S.Ct. 1754; 138 L. Ed. 2d 45; 1997 U.S. LEXIS 3396
Case history
Prior	District court granted summary judgment to respondent sons, 849 F. Supp. 462 (E.D. La. 1994); Court of appeals affirmed, 82 F.3d 90 (5th Cir. 1996).
Holding
ERISA pre-empts state community property law, when dealing with non-participating spouse and the right to will undistributed pensions.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Stevens, Scalia, Souter, Thomas; Rehnquist, Ginsburg (part III)
Dissent	Breyer, joined by O'Connor; Rehnquist, Ginsburg (except part II-B-3)
Laws applied
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.