Case Name: Fischbach v. Mercuri
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 2009-12-30
Citations: 124 Ohio St. 3d 1414
Docket Number: 2009-2053
Parties: Fischbach v. Mercuri.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 124
Pages: 1414–1414

Head Matter:
2009-2053.
Fischbach v. Mercuri.

Opinion:
Montgomery App. No. 23188, 2009-Ohio-4790. On review of order certifying a conflict. The court determines that a conflict exists. The parties are to brief the issue stated at page 8 of the court of appeals' Decision and Entry filed November 3, 2009:
"May a constructive trust be imposed on survivorship funds that a beneficiary receives from a public retirement system account, where the beneficiary's receipt of the funds inequitably results from the decedent's wrongful failure to designate an ex-spouse as a beneficiary for survivorship funds on the account?"
Moyer, C.J., and Pfeifer and O'Donnell, JJ., dissent.
The conflict case is Schrader v. Schrader, Hocking App. No. 03CA20, 2004-Ohio-4104.
Sua sponte, cause consolidated with 2009-1953, Fischbach v. Mercuri, Montgomery App. No. 23188, 2009-Ohio-4790.