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Following a divorce, what continuation right does Massachusetts law give the former spouse with respect to the employee's family health coverage?
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Why C is correct
M.G.L. c. 175, § 110I gives a divorced spouse the right to continue coverage under the employee's family policy after the divorce, and that continuation endures until either party remarries. The remarriage of either the ex-spouse or the employee — not the passage of a fixed number of months — is the event that ends the ex-spouse's continuation right under the Massachusetts provision.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) The ex-spouse continuation right is not a fixed-months clock; under M.G.L. c. 175, § 110I it lasts until either party remarries.
- B) Divorce does not automatically and finally sever coverage; Massachusetts law expressly permits the former spouse to continue under the family policy.
- D) The employee's retirement is not the terminating event for ex-spouse continuation; the statute keys the end of coverage to remarriage.
Memory hook
Divorce doesn't drop the ex-spouse — the second 'I do' does.