Surviving Spouse Benefits and Divorce IMRF
If you participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund or IMRF, if you divorce after retirement and were married for at least 1 year before terminated IMRF participation, your ex-spouse remains eligible for surviving spouse pension. This is so even if the Member remarries. However, you want to make sure that the Member keeps the Alternate Payee ex-spouse listed as the only primary beneficiary. Here is what the IMRF website says: Retired Members If you divorce after you