In Re Estate Of Dobert

¶1 In 1995, the Arizona legislature enacted a law which provided that a court order dividing a marital estate serves to rescind any revocable Disposition or appointment of property made by a divorced person to that person's former spouse. Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. ("A.R.S.") section 14-2804 (1995). This appeal asks us to decide the effect of this statute upon the distribution of life-insurance proceeds to a former spouse, the named beneficiary of an insurance contract entered before the statute was passed. The trial court declared that the statute served to deprive the former spouse of the proceeds. For the reasons which follow, we affirm that judgment.