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CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST PROPERLY IMPOSED UPON THE PROCEEDS OF LIFE INSURANCE TO COVER CHILD SUPPORT AND EDUCATION COSTS.

The Second Department determined, where father was ordered to procure life insurance to cover the children’s support and education costs, and where father died without complying with the order, a constructive trust on the proceeds of other life insurance policies was properly imposed in an amount sufficient to cover father’s support and education-expense obligations:

… [T]he Legislature has provided that a court may require a payor spouse to maintain life insurance to prevent that financial injury: “The court may also order a party to purchase, maintain or assign a policy of accident insurance or insurance on the life of either spouse, and to designate in the case of life insurance, either spouse or children of the marriage, or in the case of accident insurance, the insured spouse as irrevocable beneficiaries during a period of time fixed by the court. The obligation to provide such insurance shall cease upon the termination of the spouse’s duty to provide maintenance, child support or a distributive award” (Domestic Relations Law § 236[B][8][a]). The purpose of this provision is not to provide an alternative award of maintenance or child support, but solely to ensure that the spouse or children will receive the economic support for payments that would have been due had the payor spouse survived … . Accordingly, where life insurance is appropriate, it should be set in an amount sufficient to achieve that purpose … . It should not be in an amount that would provide a windfall … . Mayer v Mayer, 2016 NY Slip Op 05911, 2nd Dept 8-31-16

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