Thrivent Financial for Luthera v. Johanna Anderson

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FEB 04 2013

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THRIVENT FINANCIAL FOR No. 11-35437

LUTHERANS,

D.C. No. 1:10-cv-00156-RFC Plaintiff - Appellee,

v. MEMORANDUM *

LUCIA E. ANDRONESCU, FKA Lucia E. Anderson,

Defendant-cross-defendant - Appellee, v.

JOHANNA M. ANDERSON,

Defendant-cross-claimant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Richard F. Cebull, Chief District Judge, Presiding

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. Submitted June 5, 2012 ** Seattle, Washington

Before: SILVERMAN and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges, and HALL, District Judge.***

In a dispute over who is the proper beneficiary of Brent Anderson’s life

insurance policy, the district court granted judgment on the pleadings in favor of

Lucia Andronescu—Anderson’s ex-wife—because it found that Mont. Code Ann.

§ 72-2-814, which revokes, upon divorce, the designation of a spouse as…