The Supreme Court appeared unlikely to strike down a Minnesota law that keeps people from collecting on their exes’ life-insurance policies.

Minnesota enacted the statute at issue in 2002 to address the tendency of couples unintentionally failing to update such documents after a divorce.

At a hearing on the law, the Supreme Court noted that some people very well may prefer to keep former spouses as the beneficiaries of their life insurance policies, even after getting divorced. Justice Elena Kagan noted, however, that the Minnesota Legislature might be owed deference after using its judgment to finding that isn’t typically the case.

“If you’re saying really we look to the broad class of people, why shouldn’t we make the same judgment that the Legislature made, or at least accept that judgment, that if we look to the broad class of people, most of them would rather give their life insurance policy to their children than to their divorced spouse?” Kagan asked.

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