The report also may include previous addresses, employers, phone or driver's license numbers and your spouse's name, if applicable.

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Choate suggests this alternative: Name your spouse as primary beneficiary of your IRA and your credit shelter trust as the contingent beneficiary.

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To enable the RRB to determine whether a change of name by a female spouse or widow annuitant was caused by a remarriage.

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If your spouse takes out a loan and you put your name on it as well, you may still be affected by the loan payments even if you are divorced down the line.

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Your old IRA accounts list your ex-spouse as primary beneficiary because you never removed his or her name.

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At 4.30am the crowds (only hundreds this time and arriving by car or scooter) gathered under the Column of Hera, the Greek name for Juno who, as Jupiter's spouse, was known as the Queen of the Heavens, a title later to be conferred on the Virgin Mary.

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Spouse heirs, of course, can still claim the account as their own and name new heirs.

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Unfortunately, this doesn't work well if the first spouse to die doesn't have enough of the right kind of assets in his own name to fill the trust.

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