Goodwin v. Goodwin

PER CURIAM

Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 16th day of September, 2021, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is:

When it held that life insurance and IRA proceeds paid to only one spouse-here, [Respondent], the sole revocable beneficiary-was property "acquired by gift…bequest, devise or descent" and, therefore, not subject to equitable distribution, did the Superior Court erroneously disregard long-established Pennsylvania law, which provides that a designation of a beneficiary is not a "gift" and, instead, look to decisions from other states, whose laws are different?