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191317P.pdf   04/02/2020  Michele Rose  v.  Estate of Joel S. Bernstein
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1317
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Erickson and Melloy, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Insurance. Under New Jersey law, unless the Interspousal 
   Agreement or the Final Judgment expressly provided that plaintiff would 
   remain the beneficiary of her ex-husband's insurance policy after their 
   divorce, her designation as beneficiary is revoked; the district court did 
   not err in concluding Rose could not prove the Interspousal Agreement had 
   been amended to address the life insurance policy at issue; by its terms 
   the Interspousal Agreement required that any amendment be in writing and 
   executed with the same formalities as the agreement and the district court 
   did not err in finding Rose has no proof of any oral amendment to the 
   Final Judgment.