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The court affirmed the State Employees' Retirement Board's denial of the claimant's request to be designated as beneficiary of her estranged husband's SERS death benefits. The member lawfully changed his beneficiary designation prior to his death, and the divorce action abated upon his death before a decree was issued.
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