{"id":197,"date":"2019-04-16T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/FFLY\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2025-01-17T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:03:45","slug":"beneficiary-designation-mistake-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/16\/beneficiary-designation-mistake-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION MISTAKE #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something else we see an awful lot really just comes down to paying attention! Have you had a significant life event &#8211; marriage, child(ren) born, divorce or parents die? All of these events could impact your beneficiary designation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, if you get divorced, you should immediately update your beneficiary. Even if you want to keep your ex-spouse as beneficiary, update the relationship to state &#8220;ex spouse&#8221; so it is clear your intentions were to keep him\/her as the beneficiary. Otherwise, if you do not want your ex-spouse to receive the death benefit, you should name a new beneficiary. There have been situations where the firefighter was divorced than re-married, but did not change the beneficiary form, so the death benefit went to the ex!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something else we see an awful lot really just comes down to paying attention! Have you had a significant life event &#8211; marriage, child(ren) born, divorce or parents die? All of these events could impact your beneficiary designation. In particular, if you get divorced, you should immediately update your beneficiary. Even if you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,5,6,7,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireflyadmin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}