Fischbach v. Mercuri

Ohio Supreme Court
Fischbach v. Mercuri, 124 Ohio St. 3d 1414 (Ohio 2009)
919 N.E.2d 214
Donnell, Moyer, Pfeifer

Fischbach v. Mercuri

Opinion of the Court

Montgomery App. No. 23188, 2009-Ohio-4790. On review of order certifying a conflict. The court determines that a conflict exists. The parties are to brief the issue stated at page 8 of the court of appeals’ Decision and Entry filed November 3, 2009:

“May a constructive trust be imposed on survivorship funds that a beneficiary receives from a public retirement system account, where the beneficiary’s receipt of the funds inequitably results from the decedent’s wrongful failure to designate an ex-spouse as a beneficiary for survivorship funds on the account?”

Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent.

The conflict case is Schrader v. Schrader, Hocking App. No. 03CA20, 2004-Ohio-4104.

Sua sponte, cause consolidated with 2009-1953, Fischbach v. Mercuri, Montgomery App. No. 23188, 2009-Ohio-4790.

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