It's a plot for an Ibsen drama. I have no knowledge of any details, I have no experience, I have no opinion and I have no advice. I want to not to make your work more difficult. It's unavoidable that questions should arise in my mind. I don't know whether it is helpful to you that the I articulate. I will tell them to you as we drive back from the airport. Please stop me, when what I say is disconcerting. 1) For what purposes does the Minnesota Retirement Plan (MRP) require proof of Marion's divorce? a) Conceivably, but most unlikely, because Micha is a co-beneficiary of any inter-vivos payments to Marion. b) Hypothetically because the Retirement Plan is required to make an annual Minimum Required Distribution (MRD) of Marion's account, and that this amount would be smaller if Marion were married rather than if she were single; it would be irrelevant whether she was unmarried, widowed or divorced. Marion has filed income tax returns for the past 50 years, claiming to be single, the MRP should accept a statement made by Marion under penalties of perjury about her marital status, especially if such a statement were supported by copies of recent income tax returns. My own hypothesis is that MRP's demand for ...