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When you are still listed as beneficiary on your ex-spouse's accounts

My ex-husband and I have been divorced for eight years but he still has not updated his retirement account to remove me as beneficiary and I do not know if I should tell him or just hope his new wife figures it out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Divorce rarely untangles every legal and financial thread that once bound two lives together, leaving former partners in ethical limbo about their ongoing responsibilities to each other.

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