Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: benefits for which the employee spouse may name a beneficiary are in the "refund" category. These consist of employee contributions to the plan that have not been paid out in the form of retirement or death benefits "at the date of death of the last beneficiary." A.R.S. 38-846(F) (formerly subsection H). Here, Raul was or dered in the original decree to name Guiller-mina as an "irrevocable beneficiary of 50% of any death benefits payable by reason of his former employment with Santa Cruz County." At some time thereafter, he designated her as a beneficiary of 50% of any refund benefits, which was all that the law allowed him to do. 21 We believe the wording of the statute deprives an ex-spouse of any right or claim to death benefits under the plan. See, e.g., Arnold, 912 P.2d at 470 (<HOLDING>). At the time of this divorce, there obviously
Holding statements: (A) holding railroad retirement benefits are not community property by congressional action (B) holding that home was community property where predecessor residence was initially purchased with separate funds but proceeds from sale of predecessor residence were commingled with community property upon sale and applied to succeeding residences noting there was no evidence of how value should have been apportioned between community and separate property each time the parties sold a residence during the period of the marriage (C) holding that while death benefits have characteristics of community property the washington legislatures designation of the beneficiaries of the statutory death benefit supersedes characterization of the interest under community property principles (D) holding that plaintiffs may have a property interest in real property (E) holding disability benefits from us civil service are community property
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(C)