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The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, Interpleader Plaintiff, v. Leon Snow Et Al., Appellants. Estate of Clark Flesher Et Al., Respondents
Citation: 26 N.Y.3d 466 · December 15, 2015 · US
- Extracted case name
- The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, Interpleader Plaintiff, v. Leon Snow Et Al., Appellants. Estate of Clark Flesher Et Al., Respondents
- Extracted reporter citation
- 26 N.Y.3d 466
- Docket / number
- pending
Machine-draft headnote
Machine-draft public headnote: The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, Interpleader Plaintiff, v. Leon Snow Et Al., Appellants. Estate of Clark Flesher Et Al., Respondents is included in the LexyCorpus QDRO sample set as a public CourtListener opinion with relevance to family-law retirement/property division context. The current annotation is conservative: it identifies source provenance, relevance signals, and evidence quotes for attorney/agent retrieval. It is not a Willie-approved legal headnote yet.
Retrieval annotation
Draft retrieval summary: this opinion has QDRO relevance score 1/5, retirement-division score 5/5, and family-law score 2/5. Use the quoted text and full opinion below before relying on the case.
Category: family-law retirement/property division context
Evidence quotes
retirement benefits“t-of-laws principles and statutory choice-of-law directives, unless the parties expressly indicate otherwise. I. Plaintiff Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (MMBB) is a New York not-for-profit corporation, based in New York County, that administers a retirement plan and a death benefit plan for certain ministers and missionaries. Decedent Clark Flesher was a minister enrolled in both plans. He named his then-wife, defendant LeAnn Snow, as his primary beneficiary and her father, defendant Leon Snow, as the contingent beneficiary. Both plans state that they \shall be governed by”
Source and provenance
- Source type
- courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
- Permissions posture
- public
- Generated status
- machine draft public v0
- Review status
- gold label pending
- Jurisdiction metadata
- US
- Deterministic extraction
- reporter: 26 N.Y.3d 466
- Generated at
- May 14, 2026
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Clean opinion text
================================================================= This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. ----------------------------------------------------------------- No. 131 The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, Interpleader Plaintiff, v. Leon Snow et al., Appellants, v. The Estate of Clark Flesher, et al., Respondents. Jesse T. Wilkins, for appellants. Brian Rosner, for respondents. STEIN, J.: In IRB-Brasil Resseguros, S.A. v Inepar Invs., S.A. (20 NY3d 310 [2012], cert denied ___ US ___, 133 S Ct 2396 [2013]), this Court held that, where parties include a New York choice-of-law clause in a contract, such a provision demonstrates the parties' intent that courts not conduct a conflict-of-laws - 1 - - 2 - No. 131 analysis (see id. at 312). We now extend that holding to contracts that do not fall under General Obligations Law § 5- 1401, and clarify that this rule obviates the application of both common-law conflict-of-laws principles and statutory choice-of-law directives, unless the parties expressly indicate otherwise. I. Plaintiff Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (MMBB) is a New York not-for-profit corporation, based in New York County, that administers a retirement plan and a death benefit plan for certain ministers and missionaries. Decedent Clark Flesher was a minister enrolled in both plans. He named his then-wife, defendant LeAnn Snow, as his primary beneficiary and her father, defendant Leon Snow, as the contingent beneficiary. Both plans state that they \shall be governed by