{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-178","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 15, § 15-178","heading":"Contracts of designating former spouse as beneficiary or","body":"providing death benefits - Effect of divorce or annulment.\n\nA. If, after entering into a written contract in which a\n\nbeneficiary is designated or provision is made for the payment of\n\nany death benefit (including life insurance contracts, annuities,\n\nretirement arrangements, compensation agreements, depository\n\nagreements, security registrations, and other contracts designating\n\na beneficiary of any right, property, or money in the form of a\n\ndeath benefit), the party to the contract with the power to\n\ndesignate the beneficiary or to make provision for payment of any\n\ndeath benefit dies after being divorced from the person designated\n\nas the beneficiary or named to receive such death benefit, all\n\nprovisions in the contract in favor of the decedent's former spouse\n\nare thereby revoked. Annulment of the marriage shall have the same\n\neffect as a divorce. In the event of either divorce or annulment,\n\nthe decedent's former spouse shall be treated for all purposes under\n\nthe contract as having predeceased the decedent.\n\nB. Subsection A of this section shall not apply:\n\n1. If the decree of divorce or annulment is vacated;\n\n2. If the decedent had remarried the former spouse and was\n\nmarried to said spouse at the time of the decedent's death;\n\n3. If the decree of divorce or annulment contains a provision\n\nexpressing an intention contrary to subsection A of this section;\n\n4. If the decedent makes the contract subsequent to the divorce\n\nor annulment;\n\n5. To the extent, if any, the contract contains a provision\n\nexpressing an intention contrary to subsection A of this section; or\n\n6. If the decedent renames the former spouse as the beneficiary\n\nor as the person or persons to whom payment of a death benefit is to\n\nbe made in a writing delivered to the payor of the benefit prior to\n\nthe death of the decedent and subsequent to the divorce or\n\nannulment.\n\nC. For purposes of subsection A of this section, \"death\n\nbenefit\" shall not include:\n\n1. Any interest in property in which the decedent's former\n\nspouse has an interest as a joint tenant; or\n\n2. Any interest in property in which the decedent's former\n\nspouse has a beneficial interest in an express trust created by the\n\ndecedent during the decedent's lifetime for which provision is made\n\nin Section 175 of Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes.\n\nD. This section shall apply to any contract of a decedent made\n\nand entered into on or after November 1, 1987 and to depository\n\nagreements and security registrations made and entered into on or\n\nafter September 1, 1994.","path":["OK Code","Title 15"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os15.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"3af534e994218168d1141aec8c3758300ba50a00b383967e54c123ab3c9d49d6","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-177","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-15-15-18"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}