Boggs v. Boggs

```json { "summary": "The Court considered whether federal pension law (ERISA) overrides state community property laws that would allow a deceased first wife to leave her interest in her husband's undistributed pension benefits to her sons in her will. The Court ruled that ERISA preempts such state laws to protect the economic security of the surviving spouse.", "questionPresented": "Does the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) pre-empt state community-property law allowing a non-participant spouse to transfer by a testamentary instrument an interest in undistributed pension plan benefits?" } ```