How do you Change Benificiaries on a Pension?

My husband retired from a CA police department. Shortly afterwards he and his wife of 30 years divorced. She passed away two years later due to alcoholism and left her half of his pension to their son who is 45 years old. The son gave his father a certified letter requesting the return of his inherited half of the pension back to his father. The retirement board refused to acknowledge the letter and return the pension. Read More …

Does Helping to Pay for Property Not in Your Name Entitle you to any Legal Rights?

My son-in-law and his uncle inherited a peice of land with a mobile home on it, my daughter who has been married to him helped him payoff his uncle for the land recently. My son-in-law actually took her end of year bonus (this year 2006)and paid his uncle off so that the land would be all his but with them divorcing we don’t know if my daughter has any legal right to the land since it was left to my son-in-law. Read More …